What is it about?
This is the first publication to deal with the postwar avant-garde in the Nordic countries. The essays cover a wide range of avant-garde manifestations in arts and culture: literature, the visual arts, architecture and design, film, radio, television and the performative arts. It is the first major historical work to consider the Nordic avant-garde in a transnational perspective that includes all the arts and to discuss the role of the avant-garde not only within the aesthetic field but in a broader cultural and political context: The cultural politics, institutions and new cultural geographies after World War II, new technologies and media, performative strategies, interventions into everyday life and tensions between market and counterculture.
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Why is it important?
It is the only book available in English on this subject. And even in Nordic languages there is no single volume that covers the entire trans-national range of all the arts and Nordic countries.
Perspectives
This is the second volume of the four volumes planned to cover all of the 20th century. It is the fruit of the creative cooperation within the Nordic Avant-Garde Network, which I created along with Marianne Ping Huang, and the one closest to my own personal research into the art and politics of the 1960s.
Prof. Emerita Tania Orum
University of Copenhagen
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This page is a summary of: A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1950-1975, March 2016, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004310506.
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