Utopia : The Avant-Garde, Modernism and (Im)possible Life.

Intro -- Contents -- About the Series - Sur la collection - Zur Buchreiheix -- Introduction -- New People of a New Life. Modernism, the Avant-Garde and the Aesthetics of Utopia -- Ideology and Aesthetics -- "Enemies of Utopia for the sake of its realisation". Futurism, Surrealism, Situationism, and the Problem of Utopia -- World War I, Modernism and Minor Utopias -- Utopia through Art. Building Bridges and Curing Culture in War-Torn Europe -- Designing a Peaceful World in a Time of Conflict. The Dutch Writer Frederik van Eeden and His Mission as an Internationalist during World War -- Surrealism's Utopian Cartographies. Off the Map? -- Utopian Failure and Function in Die Eigenart des Ästhetischen -- Language Writing's Concrete Utopia. From Leningrad to Occupy -- Rationalism and Redemption -- Magnetic Modernism. František Kupka's Mesmeric Abstraction and Anarcho-Cosmic Utopia -- Juan Gelman and the Development of a Utopian Poetics -- Utopie und Apokalypse in der österreichischen Kulturzeitschrift Der Brenner (1910-1954) -- Redemption, Utopia and the Avant-Garde. German-Jewish Visions of the Future -- From the "Transparent Stone Age" to the "Space of the Chalice-Cupola". Perceptual Utopias in the Russian Avant-Garde (1910s-1960s) -- A la recherche d'une sonorité utopique. Sound Representations of Utopia in the Works of Russian Musicians in the First Three Decades of the 20th Century -- Utopian Dimensions in Pedro Cabrita Reis. A Melancholic Return to Modernist Paradigms? -- Primitivism, Photomontage, Ethnography. Utopian Fragments in Hannah Höch's Aus einem ethnographischen Museum -- Experimentation and Urban Space -- A Paper Paradise. Ernst Bloch and the Crystal Chain -- A Retreat from Everyday Soviet Life. Konstantin Vaginov's Utopian Visions.

Utopian Voyages. Robert and Sonia Delaunay's Mural Schemes for the 1937 Exposition Internationale in Paris -- Deconstructing Constructivism in Post-Communist Hungary. László Rajk and the Na-Ne Gallery -- Guerrilla Art in the Streets of Athens. A Plan for Utopia in Action -- Communities and Education -- Utopian Futures and Imagined Pasts in the Ambivalent Modernism of the Kibbo Kift Kindred -- New York, Anarchism and Children's Art -- Children's Utopia / Fascist Utopia. An Analysis of Children's Textbooks and Subjection under Fascism -- The Future in Modernism. C.K. Ogden's To-Day and To-Morrow Book Series -- Escape from Utopia. The Metamorphoses of Utopian Dreams in the Russian Avant- Garde in Exile (Il'ya Zdanevich, Boris Poplavskii) -- Sexuality and Desire -- Erotic Utopia - Free Upbringing, Free Sex and Socialism. Wilhelm Reich's Influence on Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen's Danish Surrealism -- Faire jouir le système. Georges Bataille et l'utopie de l'impossible -- The Non-Oedipal Android. Towards a Surrealist Utopia in Postwar Romania -- From Collective Love to Nudism and the Naked City. Jens August Schade's Utopian Eroticism between Surrealism, Situationism and Popular Culture -- The Undercut Utopian Worlds of the Russian Pierrot -- Dystopian Visions and Ideas of Death as a Transformation in Gilbert Clavel's An Institute for Suicide -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Colour Illustrations.

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