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Utopia - The Avant-Garde, Modernism and (Im)possible Life (Hardcover, Digital original)
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Utopia - The Avant-Garde, Modernism and (Im)possible Life (Hardcover, Digital original)
Series: European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies
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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?
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