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The Integrity of the Avant-Garde: Karel Teige and the Biography of an Ambition

The Integrity of the Avant-Garde: Karel Teige and the Biography of an Ambition

Zusi, Peter

Paperback

Series: Visual Culture, Book 2

European ArtRussian & Former Soviet Union Art

ISBN10: 1839541679
ISBN13: 9781839541674
Publisher: Legenda
Published: Aug 3 2026
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

On what grounds do we speak of 'the avant-garde' in interwar 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 art 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.

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