A cultural history of the avant-garde in the Nordic countries, 1950-1975 / edited by Tania Ørum, Jesper Olsson ; editorial panel, Birgitte Anderberg, Andreas Engström, Benedikt Hjartarson, Audun Lindholm, Henrik Kaare Nielsen, Harri Veivo
Section 1. Paradigmatic Images of Scandinanavia -- Section 2. Cultural Politics and Institutions -- Section 3. New Cultural Geographies -- Section 4. New Technologies and New Media -- Section 5. Performative Strategies -- Section 6. Interventions into Everyday Life -- Section 7. The Avant-Garde between Market and Counterculture
Summary
"A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1950-1975 is the first publication to deal with the postwar avant-garde in the Nordic countries. The essays cover a wide range of avant-garde manifestations in arts and culture: literature, the visual arts, architecture and design, film, radio, television and the performative arts. 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 cultural politics, institutions and new cultural geographies after World War II, new technologies and media, performative strategies, interventions into everyday life and tensions between market and counterculture"--Provided by publisher
