Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950

This book explores the responses of leading European avant-garde painters to the operas of Richard Wagner, the most influential composer of the late nineteenth century. The term av...

Crossing the boundaries of a single-author study, this book uncovers Flann O'Brien's attempt to forge a commercially successful Irish literary project from international avant-gard...

The key findings on press freedom derived from the most recent update to the Global State of Democracy (GSoD) Indices data are as follows: During the period 1975–2017, the world ha...

In his debut collection, Some Trees (1956), John Ashbery poses a question that resonates across his oeuvre and much modern art: “How could he explain to them his prayer / that natu...

The Other Travel Agency – Inner Journey is a body of mixed media installations and sculptural structures that was produced through collaborative art making and diverse forms of pub...

German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen was arguably the most influential figure of the European postwar avant-garde and unquestionably the most elusive and enigmatic musical thinker...