The sacred cause

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This book is about Modernism and Avant-Garde movements in Central and Eastern European art around the last turn of the century. It sketches a surrealistic, bewildering, irrational arena. At the same time, the reader is offered a differentiated view on the complex whole of the avantgarde scene in Eastern Europe.



«This book is about Modernism and Avant-Garde movements in Central and Eastern European art around the last turn of the century. It sketches a surrealistic, bewildering, irrational arena. At the same time, we are offered a differentiated view on the complex whole of the avantgarde scene in Eastern Europe. The author takes us to dark soirées, scandalous dada theatrical performances, drunken bouts with loudmouthed reformers. Subjectivity stands against rationality, ethnonationalism against internationalism. Yugoslavian zenitism, Czech poetism, Hungarian activism, and other less-known isms, are proposed in exstatic outbursts in shortlived magazines. The pace is hectic, the commitment enormous, and the sheer force of strongminded individuals overwhelming. All in all, the inversed perspective seems alluringly fresh, with Eastern Europe as the co-producer of ideological content, instead as the receiver, or, even worse, the passive reflection of Western thought. I am impressed by the tolerance of much of the audience before and after the First World War: To be a genius seems to be just a matter of course. Karel Teige in Prague, Ljubomir Micić in Zagreb, Lajos Kassák in Budapest, and Jacek Malczewski in Krakow were tireless propagators of avant-garde art – but also of nostalgic messianism. How did they get away with this, at times, monomaniac egoism, one wonders. Sandqvist finds the answer in that subjectivity was the remedy for avantgarde artists as a defence mechanism against the repressive society and destructive socioeconomical forces.» (Jan von Bonsdorff, Professor, Uppsala University)

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 05 april 2013

Aantal pagina's: 534

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Tom Sandqvist

Hoofduitgeverij: Peter Lang Ag

Editie: New edition

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 148 mm

Product hoogte: 41 mm

Product lengte: 210 mm

Verpakking breedte: 153 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 45 mm

Verpakking lengte: 216 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 867 g

EAN: 9783631640371

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