1st Edition
Utopia and Dissent in West Germany The Resurgence of the Politics of Everyday Life in the Long 1960s
By Mia Lee
Copyright 2019
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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Just as Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was seeking re-election on a campaign of "no experiments," art avant-garde groups in West Germany were reviving the utopian impulse to unite art and society. Utopia and Dissent in West Germany examines these groups and their legacy. Postwar artists built international as well as intergenerational networks such as Fluxus, which was active in Düsseldorf,... Read more
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Reconstructing Art’s Autonomy and Social Function in Postwar Germany
Chapter One: A Zero Hour for the Arts
Chapter Two: The Return of the Avant-Garde
Chapter Three: The Rhineland and Beyond
Part II: The Primacy of Political Action
Chapter Four: West Germany on Trial
Chapter Five: In Search of the Radical Subject
Chapter Six: Liberation, Violence, and the Politicization of the Past
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Mia Lee is Assistant Professor of History at the National University of Singapore.
