The integrity of the avant-garde Karel Teige and the biography of an ambition
"On what grounds do we speak of 'the avant-garde' in inter-war European culture? Why do we understand the conflicts and quarrels among these diverse movements as expressing a shared attitude--the culture of the manifesto, the drive to reject, to explore, to renew--that trumps the conf...
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2024
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| Schriftenreihe: | Visual culture
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "On what grounds do we speak of 'the avant-garde' in inter-war European culture? Why do we understand the conflicts and quarrels among these diverse movements as expressing a shared attitude--the culture of the manifesto, the drive to reject, to explore, to renew--that trumps the conflicts and quarrels themselves? Why do the stern rationalism of a functionalist building and the irreverent irrationalism of a Dadaist performance seem heralds of a similar spirit? The Czech avant-garde theorist Karel Teige (1900-1951) regarded architecture and film as providing the key to formulating a unified theory that would capture this 'integrity of the avant-garde'. Teige--whose thought has many points of contact with celebrated figures such as Georg Lukács and Walter Benjamin, and who was a close associate of Le Corbusier, André Breton, and Hannes Meyer--reveals how a vibrant 'alternative' avant-garde tradition can raise central questions for understanding European modernism more broadly."--Back cover |
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| Beschreibung: | xi, 306 Seiten Illustrationen 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781839541667 978-1-83954166-7 |