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| Title | : | Karel Teige: L'Enfant Terrible of the Czech Modernist Avant-Garde |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.28 (914 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262041707 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 446 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-20 |
| Language | : | English |
"Tiege was at one and the same time both an agent provocateur and seismograph, at once provoking action and debate and yet simultaneously reacting with the utmost sensitivity to the shifting political spectrum of his time." -- from the introduction by Kenneth FramptonKarel Teige (1900--1951), a leading figure of the avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s, participated in every important argument and controversy of those turbulent years. Since the recovery of his work after the "velvet revolution" of 1989, his legacy has been revived not only in Prague, but also in Western Europe and the United States.Teige firmly believed in an ars una, free of the artificial separation of one branch of the arts from the other. The concept of ars una is reflected in the essays of this book, which provide intellectual riches without overly compartmentalized attempts at "academic" criticism. Because the only significant writing by Teige to appear so far in English is his well-known argument with Le Corbusier, the "Mundaneum Affair," four essays
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Eric Dluhosch is Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
About the AuthorEric Dluhosch is Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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