New York, Anarchism and Children’s Art

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. About the Series – Sur la collection – Zur Buchreihe ix
4. Introduction
5. New People of a New Life 3
6. Ideology and Aesthetics
7. “Enemies of Utopia for the sake of its realisation” 17
8. World War I, Modernism and Minor Utopias 33
9. Utopia through Art 49
10. Designing a Peaceful World in a Time of Conflict 59
11. Surrealism’s Utopian Cartographies 73
12. Utopian Failure and Function in Die Eigenart des Ästhetischen 89
13. Language Writing’s Concrete Utopia 99
14. Rationalism and Redemption
15. Magnetic Modernism 123
16. Juan Gelman and the Development of a Utopian Poetics 153
17. Utopie und Apokalypse in der österreichischen Kulturzeitschrift Der Brenner (1910–1954) 169
18. Redemption, Utopia and the Avant-Garde 185
19. From the “Transparent Stone Age” to the “Space of the Chalice-Cupola” 199
20. A la recherche d’une sonorité utopique 215
21. Utopian Dimensions in Pedro Cabrita Reis 229
22. Primitivism, Photomontage, Ethnography 241
23. Experimentation and Urban Space
24. A Paper Paradise 259
25. A Retreat from Everyday Soviet Life 275
26. Utopian Voyages 289
27. Deconstructing Constructivism in Post-Communist Hungary 307
28. Guerrilla Art in the Streets of Athens 323
29. Communities and Education
30. Utopian Futures and Imagined Pasts in the Ambivalent Modernism of the Kibbo Kift Kindred 339
31. New York, Anarchism and Children’s Art 355
32. Children’s Utopia / Fascist Utopia 369
33. The Future in Modernism 383
34. Escape from Utopia 397
35. Sexuality and Desire
36. Erotic Utopia – Free Upbringing, Free Sex and Socialism 413
37. Faire jouir le système 429
38. The Non-Oedipal Android 445
39. From Collective Love to Nudism and the Naked City 459
40. The Undercut Utopian Worlds of the Russian Pierrot 475
41. Dystopian Visions and Ideas of Death as a Transformation in Gilbert Clavel’s An Institute for Suicide 493
42. List of Contributors 503
43. Index 505
44. Colour Illustrations 517