A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950

Ørum, Tania, Stounbjerg, Per, Kollnitz, Andrea, Hjartarson, Benedikt

A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950 is the first publication to deal with the avant-garde in the Nordic countries in this period. The essays cover a wide range of avant-garde manifestations: literature, visual arts, theatre, architecture and design, film, radio, body culture and magazines. 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 pre-war and wartime responses to international developments, the new cultural institutions, sexual politics, the impact of refugees and the new start after the war.

EAN

9789004520110

Publisher

Brill

Published

25 May 2022

Pages

992