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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. The book's varied and carefully selected contributions, written by experts from around 20 countries, seek to answer such questions as: · how have modernism and the avant-garde responded to historical circumstance in mapping the form of possible futures for humanity? · how have avant-garde and modernist works presented ideals of living as alternatives to the present? · how have avant-gardists acted with or against the state to remodel human life or to resist the instrumental reduction of life by administration and industrialisation?
Product details
- Type:
- Book
- Edition:
- 1
- Languages:
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Original:
English
- Number of Pages:
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548
- Publisher:
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De Gruyter
- Publication Date:
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2015-12-14
- Release Date:
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2016-06-28
- ISBN / EAN:
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9783110427097
- Weight:
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960 g
- Dimensions:
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16/24/4 cm
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- GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
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[email protected]
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