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?
Caractéristiques
Éditions :De Gruyter
Nombre de pages :544
ISBN :9783110427097
Date de publication :14 décembre 2015
Dimensions (L x H x E cm) :3.2 X 22.9 X 15.9
Poids (g) :907
Reliure :hardcover
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