Research Catalog

Title

Utopia : the avant-garde, modernism and (im)possible life / edited by David Ayers, Benedikt Hjartarson, Tomi Huttunen and Harri Veivo ; with the editorial assistance of Þorsteinn Surmeli.

Publication

• Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ayers, David, 1960-
• Hjartarson, Benedikt
• Huttunen, Tomi
• Veivo, Harri
• Surmeli, Þorsteinn

Description

xii, 532 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.

Summary

"Utopian hope and dystopian despair are characteristic features of modernism and the avant-garde. Readings of the avant-garde have frequently sought to identify utopian moments coded in its works and activities as optimistic signs of a possible future social life, or as the attempt to preserve hope against the closure of an emergent dystopian present. The fourth volume of the EAM series, European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, casts light on the history, theory and actuality of the utopian and dystopian strands which run through European modernism and the avant-garde from the late 19th to the 21st century."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

European avant-garde and modernism studies = Etudes sur l'avant-garde et le modernisme en Europe = Studien zur europäischen Avantgarde und Moderne, 1869-3393 ; volume 4

Uniform Title

• Utopia (De Gruyter)
• European avant-garde and modernism studies v. 4

Alternative Title

Avant-garde, modernism and (im)possible life

Subject

• Arts, European > Themes, motives > Congresses
• Aesthetics, Modern > Themes, motives > Congresses
• Utopias in art > Congresses

Note

• International conference proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9783110427097
• 9783110434781 (canceled/invalid)
• 9783110433005 (canceled/invalid)
• 9783110434798 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 944393849
• SCSB-10860931

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library