A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1950-1975
is the first publication to deal with the postwar avant-garde in the
Nordic countries. The essays cover a wide range of avant-garde
manifestations in arts and culture: literature, the visual arts,
architecture and design, film, radio, television and the performative
arts.

It is the first major historical work to consider the Nordic avant-garde
in a transnational perspective that includes all the arts and to
discuss the role of the avant-garde not only within the aesthetic field
but in a broader cultural and political context: The cultural politics,
institutions and new cultural geographies after World War II, new
technologies and media, performative strategies, interventions into
everyday life and tensions between market and counterculture.