{"product_id":"utopia-9783110427097","title":"Utopia","description":"  \u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\" http-equiv=\"content-type\"\u003e \u003cmeta name=\"generator\" content=\"mshtml 8.00.6001.23644\"\u003e  \u003cp\u003eUtopian hope and dystopian despair are characteristic features of modernism and the avant-garde. Readings of the avant-garde have frequently sought to identify utopian moments coded in its works and activities as optimistic signs of a possible future social life, or as the attempt to preserve hope against the closure of an emergent dystopian present. The fourth volume of the EAM series, European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, casts light on the history, theory and actuality of the utopian and dystopian strands which run through European modernism and the avant-garde from the late 19th to the 21st century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book’s varied and carefully selected contributions, written by experts from around 20 countries, seek to answer such questions as: \u003cbr\u003e· how have modernism and the avant-garde responded to historical circumstance in mapping the form of possible futures for humanity?\u003cbr\u003e· how have avant-garde and modernist works presented ideals of living as alternatives to the present?\u003cbr\u003e· how have avant-gardists acted with or against the state to remodel human life or to resist the instrumental reduction of life by administration and industrialisation?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Ayers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48262381404411,"sku":"9783110427097","price":270.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_e4a62c61-2065-4483-b18a-4d049a4bca4a.jpg?v=1778452948","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/utopia-9783110427097","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}