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

Intro -- A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950 -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Section 1: Paradigmatic Cases -- Introduction to Section 1 -- Viking Eggeling and European Avant-Garde Cinema -- For Our Own Time - Negotiating Tradition, Modernity and the Avant-Garde at the Stockholm Exhibition 1930 -- The Kjersmeier Collection of African Art, the Danish Avant-Garde and the Construction of Photographic Meaning -- Alvar Aalto around 1930 - Between Modernism and the Avant-Garde -- Asger Jorn and Cobra - A Many-Headed Beast -- Section 2: Legacies and New Directions -- Introduction to Section 2 -- Quosego - Final Blow, Starting Shot -- Surrealism in Denmark - Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen's Book Surrealismen, 1934 -- Everybody must participate in everything" - Cross-Aesthetic Practices in and around the Danish Magazine linien (1934-1939) -- The Reception of the Halmstad Group in the 1930s -- Smile at the World, and It Will Laugh at You - Helhesten's Folkelig Avant-Garde -- The Birth of a Vanguard - Icelandic Art 1940-1950 -- Scandinavian Women Artists and the Académie Moderne - Abstraction, Gender and the Nordic -- Universal Language on National Ground - Otto G. Carlsund and Art Concret at the Stockholm Exhibition 1930 -- Linien II - A Local Avant-Garde Formation in Postwar Denmark -- Section 3: Transmissions, Appropriations and Responses -- Introduction to Section 3 -- To France with Love - Surrealism, Schadism, Situationism and Jens August Schade -- A Nordic Verfremdung - Bertolt Brecht's Exile in Denmark, Sweden and Finland 1933-1941 -- Merz in the Mountains: Peripheral Art in a Peripheral Landscape - On Kurt Schwitters's Norwegian Exile and Artistic Production in Møre og Romsdal, 1937-1940 -- Rita Kernn-Larsen - An International Surrealist Career.

From Bauhaus to Bispebjerg - Edvard Heiberg and the Social Avant-Garde -- Corporeal Aesthetics - Primitivism and the Reception of African American Performing Arts around 1930 -- Trajectories, Circulations and Geographical Configurations of the Avant-Garde and Modernism in Finland, 1922-1939 -- Section 4: Institutional Settings -- Introduction to Section 4 -- How Nordic Neue Sachlichkeit, Kulturradikalisme, Transformed Modernism into a Vernacular Avant-Garde -- The Engineer and the Avant-Garde - Concrete Artists in Sweden -- Arne Korsmo, PAGON and "Meccano for the Home -- State-Controlled Avant-Garde? - Emil Bønnelycke's Radiophonic Portrait of Copenhagen -- Nyrki Tapiovaara - Between Avant-Garde and Mainstream Cinema -- In the Absence of the Avant-Garde - Atonality, Satire and De-Romanticisation in the Musical Life of Norway -- Unionalen - A Travelling Scandinavian Exhibition Platform -- A Vanguard Claiming Ground - Swedish Artists on the Market and within the State 1930-1955 -- Avant-Garde Strategies versus Democratisation and "Popularisation" - New Artist Roles and Forms of Distribution in the Danish Art World of the Interwar Period -- Section 5: Aesthetic Experiments and Negotiations -- Introduction to Section 5 -- The Rise of Danish Avant-Garde Cinema in the 1940s -- Gösta Hellström and Interwar Avant-Garde Film Culture in Sweden -- The Melody That Got Lost - A Unique Example of Avant-Garde Theatre in Denmark -- Dark Heerup - A Not so Quaint Avant-Gardist -- The Sunrise and Sunset of the Avant-Garde according to William Heinesen -- The Clearance Sale of Ideals" - Henry Parland and Finland-Swedish Literary Modernism, 1928-1930 -- Hagar Olsson and the Soldier of Modernism - War, Brutality and Borders in the Interwar Period -- Avant-Garde Moments in Nykyaikaa etsimässä, by Olavi Paavolainen.

A New Approach to Language - Volter Kilpi's Alastalon Salissa (1933) -- Understandable and Revolutionary - The Influence of Russian Avant-Garde Picture Books in Denmark in the 1930s -- Section 6: Ideology, Discourse and Responses -- Introduction to Section 6 -- The Socio-Cultural Conditions of the Avant-Gardes in Finland in the 1920s and 1930s -- The Socialist Utopia in Norway and the Changing Art Production and Reception -- Olav Dalgard - Politics, Film, Theatre and the Avant-Garde in Norway in the Interwar Years -- Expo Aleby, 1949 - Wilhelm Freddie, Gösta Kriland and Surrealist Magic Art in Stockholm -- Jewishness, Internationalism and the Swedish Music Scene - The Reception of Moses Pergament -- From Bauhaus to Our House - Kritisk Revy, Popular Culture, and the Roots of "Scandinavian Design -- Cleansing the Domestic Evil - On the Degenerate Art Exhibition in Reykjavík, 1942 -- Turbulence in Icelandic Art - Landscape, the Avant-Garde and Public Discourse in the 1940s -- Niels Bukh's Functionalist Body Architecture - Gymnastics between Avant-Garde and Popular Culture -- Wilhelm Freddie - Art and the Sexual Revolution -- Index.

A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950 is the first work to consider all the arts and to discuss the role of the avant-garde not only in aesthetic terms but in its cultural and political context.

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