{"product_id":"a-cultural-history-of-the-avant-garde-in-the-nordic-countries-1925-1950-paperback","title":"A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBenedikt Hjartarson\u003c\/b\u003e (Volume Editor), \u003cb\u003eAndrea Kollnitz\u003c\/b\u003e (Volume Editor), \u003cb\u003ePer Stounbjerg\u003c\/b\u003e (Volume Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBenedikt Hjartarson is professor of comparative literature and cultural studies at the University of Iceland. He has written and edited a number of books and articles on the European avant-garde, published in Icelandic, German, Danish, English and Swedish.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Andrea Kollnitz is associate professor of art history at Stockholm University. She has published a monograph on nationalist agendas in Swedish art criticism 1908-34 and edited a collection on \u003ci\u003eFashion and Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e as well as published research on fashion caricatures, nationalist fashion and art discourses, the avant-garde artist's role and artistic self-fashioning. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Per Stounbjerg is dr.phil. in Scandinavian literature and head of the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University. He has published on August Strindberg, genre studies, avant-garde, modernism and the aesthetics of the ugly. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Tania Ørum is professor emerita at the University of Copenhagen. She has published monographs and articles on modernism and avant-garde and is General editor of the volumes of \u003ci\u003eA Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries\u003c\/i\u003e, a subseries of \u003ci\u003eAvant-Garde Critical Studies\u003c\/i\u003e (Brill Rodopi)\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 968\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2.2 x 9.2 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 25, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47557259133181,"sku":"9789004520110","price":106.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/1E6om0fC4L9789004520110.webp?v=1779346396","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/a-cultural-history-of-the-avant-garde-in-the-nordic-countries-1925-1950-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}