Title & Author:

Karel Teige/1900-1951 : l'enfant terrible of the Czech modernist avant-garde / edited by Eric Dluhosch, Rostislav Švácha.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1999.

Description:

xxvi, 420 pages [8] unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, plans, facsimiles, photographs ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Poetry must be made by all! Transform the world : the hedonistic vision of Karel Teige / Kenneth Frampton -- Karel Teige in the twenties : the moment of sweet ejaculation / Karel Srp (trans. Karolina Vočadlo) -- The avant-garde ideal of poiēsis : poetism and artificialism during the late 1920s / Lenka Bydžovská (trans. Karolina Vočadlo) -- Poetism / Karel Teige (trans. Alexandra Büchler) -- Typography / Polana Bregantová (trans. David Chirico) -- Modern typography / Karel Teige (trans. Alexandra Büchler) -- Before and after the mundaneum : Teige as theoretician of the architectural avant-garde / Rostislav Švácha (trans. Alexandra Büchler) -- Teige's minimum dwelling as a critique of modern architecture / Eric Dluhosch -- The minimum dwelling and the collective house / Karel Teige (trans. Alexandra Büchler) -- Karel Teige and the CIAM : the history of a troubled relationship / Klaus Spechtenhauser and Daniel Weiss (trans. Eric Dluhosch) -- Karel Teige during the thirties : projecting dialectics / Karel Srp (trans. Karolina Vočadlo) -- Karel Teige's collages, 1935-1951 : the erotic object, the social object, and surrealist landscape art / Vojtěch Lahoda (trans. David Chirico) -- Karel Teige : art theory between phenomenology and structuralism / Miroslav Petříček Jr. (trans. David Chirico) -- The inner model / Karel Teige (trans. Alexandra Büchler) -- Appendix : Chronological overview--dates, events, manifestos, and books / Rumjana Dačeva (trans. Eric Dluhosch) -- Postscript : My uncle, Karel Teige / Miloš Aulický (trans. Eric Dluhosch).

Summary:

"Karel Teige (1900-1951), a leading figure of the European avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s, participated in every important artistic argument and controversy of those turbulent years. He edited the most influential avant-garde journals on Czech and International cultural developments and wrote profoundly original essays and books on the theory and criticism of art and architecture. He also produced paintings, collages, photomontages, film scripts, book covers, and typefaces and participated in theatrical performances."--Jacket.
"When the Communists took over Czechoslovakia in 1948. Teige was first hailed as a progressive, then denounced for not toeing the party line - even though he was never a card-carrying member of the Communist Party. He died a broken man, forbidden to speak out or to publish. Since the recovery of his work after the "velvet revolution" of 1989, his legacy has been revived not only in Prague but also in Western Europe and the United States."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0262041707 (alk. paper)
9780262041706 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Teige, Karel, 1900-1951 Criticism and interpretation.
Teige, Karel, 1900-1951.
Teige, Karel, 1900-1951 Critique et interprétation.
Beeldende kunsten.
Kunstnijverheid.
Kunsttheorie.
Biografias.

Form/genre:

Essays.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Dluhosch, Eric, 1927-
Švácha, Rostislav.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 201642
Call No.: NA2599.8 T263 K3 1999
Status: Available