Czech Cubism in the Marketplace of Symbolic Goods

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.53631/MIS/2023.14.3" target="_blank" >10.53631/MIS/2023.14.3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Czech Cubism in the Marketplace of Symbolic Goods

Original language description

The study analyses the concept of Czech architectural cubism, describes its genesis and explains the function of this label. So-called Czech Cubism is one of the most attractive topics in the historiography of Central European architecture, but few scholars have asked themselves what is truly Cubist in Czech ‘Cubist’ architecture. Although the ideological basis of this phenomenon lies in German, psychologically oriented art theory, the wider professional community perceives it as a response to concurrent events in French art. This paper analyses the notion of Czech architectural ‘Cubism’, shows its genesis, and explains the function of this label. The term ‘Cubism’ began to be used in Czech critical discourse as a classification concept for architectural works only after the form of modernity advocated by Emil Filla and Vincenc Kramář became canonical in the competitive struggle for a monopoly on artistic recognition. The term ‘Cubism’ expressed the orientation of Czech modernism towards Paris, which in Filla’s and Kramář’s conception represented the only legitimate centre of development. The chosen label neutralised the controversial, anti-rationalist, or even anti-modernist aspects of the Pavel Janák group’s programme, as well as its origins in German theory. The autonomous and original artistic phenomenon that emerged from rich transcultural encounters and interchanges was thus subordinated to the model of vertical art history and degraded to a product of diffusion – i.e., the reception of French art.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60401 - Arts, Art history

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Meno istorijos studijos/ Art History Studies

ISSN

2783-6193

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

03

Country of publishing house

LT - LITHUANIA

Number of pages

32

Pages from-to

65-96

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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