A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950 (Avant-Garde Critical Studies / A Cultural History of the Ava)

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