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The Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries Since 1975 is the final volume of the four-volume series of cultural histories of the avant-garde movements in the Nordic countries. This volume carries the avant-garde discussion forward to present-day avant-gardes, challenged by the globalisation of the entertainment industries and new interactive media such as the internet. The avant-garde can now be considered a tradition that has been made more widely available through the opening of archives, electronic documentation and new research, which has spurred both re-enactments, revisions and continuations of historical avant-garde practices, while new cultural contexts, political, technological and ecological conditions have called for new strategies.

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“A tour-de-force through 20th-century Nordic avant-garde and cultural history."" [...] ""[This] is a very focused volume, which, with the introduction and introductions to each individual section, educationally takes the reader by the hand through the various avant-garde activities documented. Add to this the fact that each individual article is well written, highly interesting and thought-provoking, and that each should lead to further study at various university levels (many deserving of their own PhD theses). [...] The editorial tour-de-force through 20th-century Nordic cultural history has also provided new perspectives on the second neo-avant-garde wave that cancels the dichotomy between center and periphery; instead it is shown that [...] the Nordic countries show power to constitute such centers in international cultural history.” -Per Bäckström, Edda, Volume 110, Issue 1, pp 62–66, 6 March 2023. “En tour-de-force genom 1900-talets nordiska avantgarde- och kulturhistoria."" [...] ""[Detta] är en mycket fokuserad volym, som med introduktionen och inledningar till varje enskild sektion, på ett pedagogiskt vis för läsaren vid handen genom de olika avantgardeaktiviteter som dokumenteras. Lägger man till detta att varje enskild artikel är välskriven, högst intressant och tankeväckande, och att var och en borde leda till vidare studier på olika universitetsnivåer (mycket förtjänar egna doktorsavhandlingar). [...] Redaktionens tour-de-force genom 1900-talets nordiska kulturhistoria har dessutom gett nya perspektiv på den andra neoavantgardevåg som upphäver dikotomin mellan centrum och periferi; istället visas att [...] de nordiska länderna uppvisar kraft att utgöra sådana centrum i den internationella kulturhistorien.” -Per Bäckström, Edda, Volume 110, Issue 1, pp 62–66, 6 March 2023.

"“A tour-de-force through 20th-century Nordic avant-garde and cultural history."" [...] ""[This] is a very focused volume, which, with the introduction and introductions to each individual section, educationally takes the reader by the hand through the various avant-garde activities documented. Add to this the fact that each individual article is well written, highly interesting and thought-provoking, and that each should lead to further study at various university levels (many deserving of their own PhD theses). [...] The editorial tour-de-force through 20th-century Nordic cultural history has also provided new perspectives on the second neo-avant-garde wave that cancels the dichotomy between center and periphery; instead it is shown that [...] the Nordic countries show power to constitute such centers in international cultural history.” -Per Bäckström, Edda, Volume 110, Issue 1, pp 62–66, 6 March 2023. “En tour-de-force genom 1900-talets nordiska avantgarde- och kulturhistoria."" [...] ""[Detta] är en mycket fokuserad volym, som med introduktionen och inledningar till varje enskild sektion, på ett pedagogiskt vis för läsaren vid handen genom de olika avantgardeaktiviteter som dokumenteras. Lägger man till detta att varje enskild artikel är välskriven, högst intressant och tankeväckande, och att var och en borde leda till vidare studier på olika universitetsnivåer (mycket förtjänar egna doktorsavhandlingar). [...] Redaktionens tour-de-force genom 1900-talets nordiska kulturhistoria har dessutom gett nya perspektiv på den andra neoavantgardevåg som upphäver dikotomin mellan centrum och periferi; istället visas att [...] de nordiska länderna uppvisar kraft att utgöra sådana centrum i den internationella kulturhistorien.” -Per Bäckström, Edda, Volume 110, Issue 1, pp 62–66, 6 March 2023."

Author Information

Benedikt Hjartarson is Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland. He has published a number of articles, edited volumes and books on the European avant-garde. He is editor-in-chief of Brill’s Journal of Avant-Garde Studies. Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam is associate professor of Art History at Aarhus University. She has published a monograph on Surrealist collage and articles on art, literature, gender studies and feminism. Laura Luise Schultz is associate professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Copenhagen. She has published articles and monographs on Gertrude Stein, theatre and performance and is an editor of the theatre journal Peripeti. 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 A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries, a subseries of Avant-Garde Critical Studies (Brill).

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