Utopia
Subtitle: The Avant-Garde, Modernism and possible Life
Publisher: De Gruyter, Inc.
Published: 2015
Language: eng; fre; ger
Number of pages: 490
ISBN-13: 9783110434798
Subjects: Utopias; Avant-garde (aesthetics)
Description: "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."--Publisher's website.