Utopia & reality : modernity in Sweden 1900-1960 / [catalogue editor Cecilia Widenheim].

"Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, New York March 14 - June 16, 2002 exhibition curators, Cecilia Widenheim, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Eva Rudberg, Arkitekturmuseet, Stockholm."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-320) and index.

Prophets and deniers : the idea of modernity in Swedish tradition / Sverker Sörlin -- Scripts / Peter Cornell -- Utopia and reality : aspects of modernism in Swedish visual art during the first half of the twentieth century / Cecilia Widenheim -- Modernism and public art / Per Hedström -- Turnpikes and blind alleys : modernism from the perspective of the provinces / Jeff Werner -- Differencing modernism : Swedish women artists in early twentieth-century avant-garde culture / Shulamith Behr -- The technologies of modernism / Sven-Olov Wallenstein -- The Wish Museum : the art museum and modernism / Gertrud Sandqvist -- The roots of modernism in Swedish archtiecture / Eva Eriksson -- Utopia of the everyday : Swedish and un-Swedish in the architecture of functionalistism / Eva Rudberg -- The architect in focus during the first half of the twentieth-century / Björn Linn -- Design for modern people / Cilia Robach -- The last modernist : the rise of industrial designers as a profession / Gustaf Rosell -- Tradition and innovation in Swedish graphic design / Marie-Louise Bowallius -- "You've got to be modernistic" : photographers' way to a modernist attitude / Leif Wigh -- Fine grain and brave angels : modernism in Swedish photography as reflected in the photographic press / Niclas Östlind -- 'This modern establishment called the movies' : modernity and modernism in Swedish feature film / Bo Florin -- Film as art -- a modernist movement / Henrik Orrje -- Happy transitions : on the encounters between art, music, dance, poetry, and stage in the era of modernism / Sören Engblom.