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  • Hidden Stories – the Life Reform Movements and Art

    Edited by Beatrix Vincze, Katalin Kempf, András Németh ...
    Series Book 13 - Erziehung in Wissenschaft und Praxis
    Around 1900, a series of reform movements emerge that break through the mainstream of modern, technocratic and industrial developments, and in many areas of life seek alternative possibilities and new ways. Enthusiastic, open-minded and inspired by an attitude to life that ventures ideologically, artistically and socially into hitherto unknown zones, one wants to oppose the harsh realities to a ... Read more

    $77.89 USD

  • Survival of Utopias – Weiterlebende Utopien

    Life Reform and Progressive Education in Austria and Hungary – Lebensreform und Reformpaedagogik in Oesterreich und Ungarn

    Edited by András Németh, Claudia Stöckl, Beatrix Vincze ...
    Series Book 11 - Erziehung in Wissenschaft und Praxis
    Life reform and progressive education developed various utopias and projected new ways of cultural, social, religious and political living. This book studies how these utopias lived on until World War II, how they still affect present life in Austria and Hungary, and it examines continuities and differences within the political, educational and cultural movements of both countries. The main focus ... Read more

    $73.79 USD

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  • Dada and Surrealism

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    by David Hopkins ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
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