Literature and Photography : Media’s Quest to Decipher the Mystery of the Everyday

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<a href="https://www.metacriticjournal.com/article/316/literature-and-photography-medias-quest-to-decipher-the-mystery-of-the-everyday" target="_blank" >https://www.metacriticjournal.com/article/316/literature-and-photography-medias-quest-to-decipher-the-mystery-of-the-everyday</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2024.18.09" target="_blank" >10.24193/mjcst.2024.18.09</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Literature and Photography : Media’s Quest to Decipher the Mystery of the Everyday

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This article examines the intersection of literature and photography, focusing on their ability to capture everyday life. It explores the evolution of photography in 1930s and 1940s Czech culture, a period marked by aesthetic debates about its legitimacy as art. By analysing the works of Miroslav Hák and Jiří Kolář, the article highlights a paradigm shift from traditional "great art" to an appreciation of the mundane. The fascination with the banal, which was transformed into art through various, most often surrealist, methods, had already manifested itself in Czech culture. Still, it was not until the establishment of Art Group 42 that the every day and the mundane were used to express existentialist reflections. Hák and Kolář introduced into Czech culture a new type of sensibility for reality in that they did not hide reality or dull its edges through lyricism. For them, it was more important to recognise just what kind of world we live in. Thus, the stimulus for their poetic creations was not necessarily artistic in nature, but ontological: Who are we, where do we live, and how are we supposed to grasp and understand these facts?

Název v anglickém jazyce

Literature and Photography : Media’s Quest to Decipher the Mystery of the Everyday

Popis výsledku anglicky

This article examines the intersection of literature and photography, focusing on their ability to capture everyday life. It explores the evolution of photography in 1930s and 1940s Czech culture, a period marked by aesthetic debates about its legitimacy as art. By analysing the works of Miroslav Hák and Jiří Kolář, the article highlights a paradigm shift from traditional "great art" to an appreciation of the mundane. The fascination with the banal, which was transformed into art through various, most often surrealist, methods, had already manifested itself in Czech culture. Still, it was not until the establishment of Art Group 42 that the every day and the mundane were used to express existentialist reflections. Hák and Kolář introduced into Czech culture a new type of sensibility for reality in that they did not hide reality or dull its edges through lyricism. For them, it was more important to recognise just what kind of world we live in. Thus, the stimulus for their poetic creations was not necessarily artistic in nature, but ontological: Who are we, where do we live, and how are we supposed to grasp and understand these facts?

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60204 - General literature studies

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory

ISSN

2457-8827

e-ISSN

2457-8827

Svazek periodika

10

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

RO - Rumunsko

Počet stran výsledku

21

Strana od-do

185-205

Kód UT WoS článku

001390399700009

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85213893641