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In Relation to the Immense: Experimentalism and Transnationalism in 20th-Century Reykjavik
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Buffington, Adam
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587637102245713
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2020, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Music.
Abstract
In recent years, scholars have commenced to reevaluate the advent and origins of 20th-century artistic movements, with the repositioning of experimental artistic networks like Fluxus as a decentralized, transnational network of artists, a component as integral to Fluxus’ identity as its interdisciplinarity. Despite such claims, many art historical and musicological inquiries remain focused upon the activities of Fluxus artists within historically conceived artistic “centers” in the United States and Western Europe, as opposed to a more holistic investigation of Fluxus’ “transnational” aspect. Informed by archival and ethnographic research, and engaged with art historians, musicologists, and cultural anthropologists, this dissertation interrogates these dominant narratives through three interrelated, yet distinct case studies involving Icelandic and non-Icelandic artists: Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman’s scandalous performance at Reykjavik’s Theatre Lindarbær, the emergence of the Icelandic collective SUM, and Magnus Palsson’s role in experimental arts pedagogy. Such an investigation is not only concerned with examining Iceland’s (and the Nordic region more broadly) historical and socio-political position within this transnational milieu, but also the individuals who cultivated, embodied, and lived these cross-cultural exchanges, who have been relegated to the periphery of contemporary historiography.
Committee
Arved Ashby (Advisor)
Ryan Skinner (Advisor)
Richard Fletcher (Committee Member)
Pages
195 p.
Subject Headings
Art History
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Music
;
Scandinavian Studies
Keywords
Iceland
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Fluxus
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Nordic
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Cold War
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experimentalism
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transnationalism
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globalization
;
avant-garde
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art history
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art pedagogy
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art education
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musicology
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periphery
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interdisciplinarity
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conceptual art
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performance art
;
new music
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Buffington, A. (2020).
In Relation to the Immense: Experimentalism and Transnationalism in 20th-Century Reykjavik
[Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587637102245713
APA Style (7th edition)
Buffington, Adam.
In Relation to the Immense: Experimentalism and Transnationalism in 20th-Century Reykjavik.
2020. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587637102245713.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Buffington, Adam. "In Relation to the Immense: Experimentalism and Transnationalism in 20th-Century Reykjavik." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587637102245713
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