The Age of Free Jongleurs. The Art of the People and the Czech Avant-Garde
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Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.3986/pkn.v48.i1.03" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3986/pkn.v48.i1.03</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3986/pkn.v48.i1.03" target="_blank" >10.3986/pkn.v48.i1.03</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Age of Free Jongleurs. The Art of the People and the Czech Avant-Garde
Original language description
This article explores the Czech interwar avant-garde’s interest in folklore and popular culture. Like most of its international counterparts, the Czech avantgarde was convinced that institutions like art and literature had outlived their historical validity. It also had little use for bourgeois conceptions of “the nation” and “the people,” so often seen as the basis of folklore. But it engaged intensely with the cultural legacy of marginalized classes and with the possibility of new ways of expressing the cultural attitudes of the masses, both in the current moment of heightened social struggle, and in a vision of a future society where class differentiation would be abolished alongside the differentiation between specialist artists and non-specialist audiences or consumers. The search for a new art of the people found expression, most notably, in poet Vítězslav Nezval’s demonstrative vitalization of low genres, in artist and theorist Karel Teige’s championing of the circus and urban street culture, which he saw as elements of a “new folk art”, and in literary critic Bedřich Václavek’s attempt to trace the circulation of modern poetry and songs that entered the shared repertoire of emerging classes. This complex interplay of new and old, I argue, offers a model for the prefiguration of a new world that still might survive the end of this one.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Primerjalna književnost
ISSN
0351-1189
e-ISSN
0351-1189
Volume of the periodical
48
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
SI - SLOVENIA
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
39-58
UT code for WoS article
001492182300004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105004244333