The Age of Free Jongleurs. The Art of the People and the Czech Avant-Garde

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The Age of Free Jongleurs. The Art of the People and the Czech Avant-Garde

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The Age of Free Jongleurs. The Art of the People and the Czech Avant-Garde

Popis výsledku anglicky

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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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Primerjalna književnost

ISSN

0351-1189

e-ISSN

0351-1189

Svazek periodika

48

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

SI - Slovinská republika

Počet stran výsledku

20

Strana od-do

39-58

Kód UT WoS článku

001492182300004

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105004244333