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Metzler Dictionary of Avant-Garde
Hubert van den Berg/Walter Fähnders (Editors)
This dictionary covers the European avant-garde throughout the twentieth century. It offers a panorama of both
the early avant-garde movements in the 1910s and 1920s as well as more recent developments since the Second
World War, from futurism to postmodernism. It portrays the transnational formations and currents which changed
the cultural landscape profoundly in literature, the visual arts, architecture, design, fashion, music, film, photography
and other media. Entries cover single movements, topics and concepts like abstract art, Bauhaus, chance, collage,
concrete poetry, Dada, experimental music, happening, manifesto, New Objectivity, performance, Pop-art, readymade,
Situationist International, Suprematism, typography, Viennese Actionism, Zaum' and Zero. The international
presence of the avant-garde is mapped in entries on single countries in Europe as well as in other continents.
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Avant-Garde Critical Studies
Avant-Garde Critical Studies 14:
Der Blick vom Wolkenkratzer.
“… eine differenzierte, abwechslungsreiche Darstellung der Avantgarde, unbedingt lesenswert…”
Magazin, no 10.
“… ein gelungener und facettenreicher … Beitrag zur Avantgardeforschung und ihrer Theoriebildung.”
Zeitschrift für Germanistik XII – 2/2002
Avant-Garde Critical Studies 22:
Surréalisme et politique – Politique du Surréalisme.
Les avant-gardes inventent dès leur début au XXe siècle des politiques et une forme spécifique du politique, et le surréalisme va le plus loin dans l'interpénétration des domaines politiques et artistiques. A la différence des autres mouvements d'avant-garde historiques, le modèle du surréalisme est encore un défi pour nombre d'écrivains et d'artistes d'aujourd'hui, et ne serait-ce qu'en tant que mort-vivant. Voulant reconduire l'art dans la vie, donc aussi dans la politique et le politique, le surréalisme envisage une transformation de la société mais se révèle finalement résistant contre tous les totalitarismes.
Les contributions de ce volume analysent selon quelle politique "artistique" le surréalisme peut établir et pratiquer cette position "politique", unique dans l'art et la littérature du XXe siècle. Ils abordent ce sujet de perspectives théoriques et médiatiques et des points de vue de la littérature, de l’art, de l’histoire et de la communication. Les essais s'occupent aussi bien de sujets, d'oeuvres et d'auteurs représentatifs du surréalisme historique que du surréalisme d'après-guerre et de sa réception d'aujourd'hui. Ils posent ainsi la question de la nécessité et des possibilités d'un nouvel engagement politique de l'art et de la littérature contemporains.
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Stein, Marinetti og publikum
Tirsdag d. 24. november kl. 19.30 inviterer Gertrude Stein Selskabet til en aften med oplæg og diskussion om Gertrude Steins forhold til futurismen og avantgardens aktivering af publikum.
Den danske digter Martin Glaz Serup vil fortælle om Steins forhold til futuristerne med udgangspunkt i Marinettis Futuristiske manifest fra 1909 og Steins parodi på dette i teksten Marry Nettie fra 1917.
Den svenske teaterforsker Carl Åkerlund taler om iscenesættelsen af Steins skuespil med særligt henblik på publikumsrelationen. Carl Åkerlund tager afsæt i Unga Klaras forestilling Jag är jag för att min lilla hund kännar igen mig fra 2007.
Arrangementet finder sted på KUA, nærmere bestemt Institut for Kunst og Kulturvidenskabs Café: Karen Blixensvej 1, Bygning 21, stuen.
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A history of
the odd ones out
The enormous impact of the Nordic avant-garde currents on
mainsteam culture and daily life would have remained unnoticed.
The work of many ground-breaking artists would not
have been preserved anywhere and their tales left untold. That
is if a Nordic network had not had the new and experimental
idea of recording the history of the region’s avant-garde.
Nordforsk interview with Marianne Ping Huang and Tania Ørum
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World New Music Magazine 2009 – Swedish (hi)stories
In connection to the festival Listen to the World! ISCM World New Music Days, ISCM is releasing a new issue of World New Music Magazine, this year with Swedish theme. In a 160 pages issue, one can read about Swedish minimalism during five decades, electro acoustic music from analogue to laptop, debates on regional music. The Sound Art scene is investigated, women composers’ and sound artists’ position is discussed, the Swedish historiographic writings on new music is problematised. Read about the present state of orchestral music, independent record labels, text-sound/audio art, radio art, "string theories", improvisation struggling with isolationist past. Extra focus on Gothenburg and the Swedish – Danish region Öresund. World Music Days in rear-view mirror and ideas about the future. Voices from USA, Vietnam, Germany and Finland present their thoughts on contemporary Swedish music, and much more.
World New Music Magazine can be ordered from Nutida Musik: andreas.engstrom@nutidamusik.se
10 € + pp.
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Tania Ørum - De eksperimenterende tressere
- kunst i en opbrudstid
Tressernes kunst er i livlig dialog med samtiden. Gennem den mest eksperimenterende del af kunsten får man et billede af de voldsomme skift, der indtraf i perioden, og som grundlæggende ændrede den traditionelle hierarkiske samfundsorden, de herskende smagsnormer, hverdagslivet og de personlige relationer. Det er den eksperimenterende tilgang til verden - lysten til at krydse grænserne mellem kunstarter og mellem kunst, liv og politik - der har givet tresserne deres særlige stråleglans.
De eksperimenterende tressere er den første samlede fremstilling af perioden, som går på tværs af kunstarterne og trækker forbindelsen til samtidsfænomener som massemedier, kulturkamp, tegneserier og ungdomsoprør.
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Verbale Pupiller
October 22-25, 2009
Verbale Pupiller was held the first time in the fall of 2007. This year the second round will take place on 22-25 October 2009 in the Aarhus Art Building. The event features a poetry festival, a publishing fair, as well as an art exhibition, and this year Verbale Pupiller presents 30 poets, 30 artists, and 30 small presses from all over Scandinavia. The event comprises a variety of readings, performances, an art exhibition, a seminar, a book fair, concerts, and much more.
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Poetry Today
Seminar, October 20-21, 2009
A Seminar on Critical Approaches to and New Tendencies within the Study of Poetry. A collaboration between The Nordic Department, The Department of Language, Literature and Culture, The Department of Aesthetic Studies, The Doctoral School in Arts and Aesthetics and Verbale Puppiller.
VENUE: AARHUS UNIVERSITY BUILDING 1451, ROOM 120 (IN THE NOBEL PARK), JENS CHR. SKOUSVEJ 3, 8000 AARHUS C.
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The World is Yours
5 September 2009 - 10 January 2010
Listen, feel, smell, and engage in a dialogue with international contemporary art. This season's impressive presentation of contemporary art at Louisiana features twenty-four acclaimed artists from all over the world.
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