Mia Lee

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, Wiesbaden, and Cologne, and the Situationist International based in Paris. These groups were committed to undoing the compartmentalization of everyday life and the isolation of the artist in society. And as artists recast politics to address culture and everyday life, they helped forge a path for the West German extraparliamentary left. Utopia and Dissent in West Germany traces these connections and presents a chronological map of the networks that fed into the extraparliamentary left as well as a geographical map of increasing radicalism as the locus of action shifted to West Berlin. These two maps show that in West Germany artists and their interventions in the structures of everyday life were a key starting point for challenging the postwar order.

The Resurgence of the Politics of Everyday Life in the Long 1960s

Utopia and Dissent in West Germany

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Patricia Love

Christopher Love

Alice Hudson

Mary Denning

Doreen Kennedy

Patricia Alexander

Dave Ostman

Gary Burgess

Dorothy Bachelor

Erika Hawkins

Esperanza Beltran

Gina Hudgens

Jackie Crosswhite

Katie Ryan

La Rue Alegria

Lois Wilk

Melinda Hunter

Michele Elise

Richard Elton

Steve Ordway

Wilma Webster

Adriana Alexander

Audrey Vandenberg

Ekene Ogochukwu

Kathy Andrews

Kit Bennett

Lemozine Riddick

Marilyn Dalrymple

Mmeli Ogochukwu

Oleg Kagan

Steven Brito

Trisha Pritchard

Joyce Sanderson

The AMAZING anthology is a collection of short stories, poems, essays, and memoir excerpts from thirty-five talented authors who live in the Antelope Valley region of Southern California. The authors are a diverse and unique group of individuals who enjoy living and writing in the high desert. They are everyday people whose ages range from middle-school students to retirees. Among them are doctors, teachers, artists, business owners, librarians, executive assistants, salespersons, counselors, aerospace employees, homemakers, students, an EMT, a minister, and even a former Las Vegas showgirl - all with a gift for writing and a desire to share their stories with you. The theme of this anthology is works that are uplifting and inspirational. AMAZING has something for everyone: poetry that ranges from heartfelt and joyous to deep and soul-searching; touching short fiction, personal tales that will make you laugh, cry, and remember. AMAZING is the second anthology published by the Antelope Valley Writers Association, a non-profit literary group which uses the funds from their book sales to provide student scholarships to the local college.

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