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“Long Live Futurist Prague!”1
“LONG LIVE FUTURIST PRAGUE!”1 David Vichnar The article challenges the widespread notion, repeated in much literary history, regarding the non-existence or irrelevance of Czech Futurism. It traces the reception of Marinetti’s manifestoes through the pre-war and post-WWI context of Prague avant-garde, culminating in the Futurist leader’s triumphant visit to the city in 1921. It discusses the careers of S.K. Neumann, Otakar Theer, and Růžena Zátková, three important Futurist figures on the native avant-garde scene. It analyses selected mid-20s works by two most prominent Devětsil members, Vítězslav Nezval and Jaroslav Seifert, and brings into relief their Futurist poetics. Critiquing, in conclusion, Karel Teige’s anxiety of influence vis-à-vis the movement, the article shows that Futurism formed the very core of avant-garde theory and practice in 1910s and 1920s Bohemia. A hundred-and-ten years after its birth, Futurism still remains an impoverished chapter in the rich history of Prague’s international avant-garde, for reasons both general and endemic. The former would include the dubious light the ravages of WWI cast upon the Futurist adoration of war as hygiene, its much criticised if also ill-understood alignment with Fascism later on, etc. The latter would have to do with the brief and problematic flourishing of pre-war Czech avant-garde, the tortuous career paths of its most dedicated sympathisers and practitioners, and not least its post-WWI doctrinaire developments. Immediately after the war, Futurism found itself supplanted, suppressed, if also absorbed by the 1920- established Devětsil group and its Poetist hardliners. -
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Eastern European Modernism: Works on Paper at the Columbia University Libraries and The Cornell University Library Compiled by Robert H. Davis Columbia University Libraries and Cornell University Library With a Foreword by Steven Mansbach University of Maryland, College Park With an Introduction by Irina Denischenko Georgetown University New York 2021 Cover Illustration: No. 266. Dvacáté století co dalo lidstvu. Výsledky práce lidstva XX. Věku. (Praha, 1931-1934). Part 5: Prokroky průmyslu. Photomontage wrappers by Vojtěch Tittelbach. To John and Katya, for their love and ever-patient indulgence of their quirky old Dad. Foreword ©Steven A. Mansbach Compiler’s Introduction ©Robert H. Davis Introduction ©Irina Denischenko Checklist ©Robert H. Davis Published in Academic Commons, January 2021 Photography credits: Avery Classics Library: p. vi (no. 900), p. xxxvi (no. 1031). Columbia University Libraries, Preservation Reformatting: Cover (No. 266), p.xiii (no. 430), p. xiv (no. 299, 711), p. xvi (no. 1020), p. xxvi (no. 1047), p. xxvii (no. 1060), p. xxix (no. 679), p. xxxiv (no. 605), p. xxxvi (no. 118), p. xxxix (nos. 600, 616). Cornell Division of Rare Books & Manuscripts: p. xv (no. 1069), p. xxvii (no. 718), p. xxxii (no. 619), p. xxxvii (nos. 803, 721), p. xl (nos. 210, 221), p. xli (no. 203). Compiler: p. vi (nos. 1009, 975), p. x, p. xiii (nos. 573, 773, 829, 985), p. xiv (nos. 103, 392, 470, 911), p. xv (nos. 1021, 1087), p. xvi (nos. 960, 964), p. xix (no. 615), p. xx (no. 733), p. xxviii (no. 108, 1060). F.A. Bernett Rare Books: p. xii (nos. 5, 28, 82), p. -
Czech and Slovak Literature in English
Czech and Slovak Literature in English A Bibliography Second Edition Czech and Slovak Literature in English A Bibliography Second Edition By George J. Kovtun European Division Library of Congress Washington 1988 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kovtun, George J. Czech and Slovak literature in English. Includes indexes. Supt. of Docs, no.: LC 1.12/2:C99 1. Czech literature—Translations into English— Bibliography. 2. Slovak literature—Translations into English—Bibliography. 3. English literature—Translations from Czech—Bibliography. 4. English literature— Translations from Slovak—Bibliography. I, Library of Congress. European Division. II. Title. Z2138.L5K68 1988 [PG5145.E1] 016.8918'6 87-17004 ISBN 0-8444-0578-7 Cover: English readers, as depicted in Karel Capek's Letters from England, translated by Paul Selver. (DA630.C18 1925) For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402 Contents Page Preface to Second Edition v Preface to First Edition vii A. Anthologies (Prose and Poetry) 1 B. Anthologies (Folklore) 11 C. General History and Criticism 15 D. Czech Authors 43 E. Slovak Authors 125 Indexes Czech Authors 141 Slovak Authors 144 Authors and Editors of Anthologies and Other Works 145 Translators 149 Preface to the Second Edition This new edition of Czech and Slovak Literature in English is a revised, expanded, and updated version of the first edition, published in 1984, which is now out of print and which this new volume thus supersedes. Selected works produced over the four-year period 1983-1986 were added to the previous biblio graphic record and several errors and omissions were corrected. -
Maximum Inventiveness Exhibition Catalogue
Maximum imaginativeness an exhibition on modern Czech book design (1900-1950) from the collections of the omas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto Exhibition and catalogue by Ksenya Kiebuzinski, with the contribution of Tim Klähn thomas fisher rare book library 28 September to 18 December 2015 Catalogue and exhibition by Ksenya Kiebuzinski General editors P.J. Carefoote and Philip Oldfield Exhibition designed and installed by Linda Joy Digital photography by Paul Armstrong Catalogue designed by Stan Bevington Endpapers by Kevin King Catalogue printed by Coach House Press library and archives canada cataloguing in publication omas Fisher Rare Book Library, issuing body, host institution Maximum imaginativeness : an exhibition on modern Czech book design (1900-1950) from the collections of the omas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 28 September to 18 December 2015 / exhibition and catalogue by Ksenya Kiebuzinski, with the contribution of Tim Klähn. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-7727-6116-3 (paperback) 1. omas Fisher Rare Book Library—Exhibitions. 2. Book design—Czechoslovakia—History—20th century—Exhibitions. 3. Avant-garde (Aesthetics)—Czechoslovakia—History—20th century —Exhibitions. I. Kiebuzinski, Ksenya, writer of added commentary, organizer II. Klähn, Tim, writer of added commentary III.Title. z246.t56 2015 686.094371074’713541 c2015-905373-0 Preface One of the great strengths of the Fisher Library collections centres on the broad theme of the book arts, beginning with examples of medieval manu- scripts, ranging through the early efforts of the first generations of printers aer Gutenberg, and continuing on to the great achievements of the Renais- sance printing houses. -
Civilist Tendencies in the Inter-War Czech Music: at the Beginning of a Research
Musicologica Brunensia 54 / 2019 / 1 https://doi.org/10.5817/MB2019-1-15 Civilist Tendencies in the Inter-war Czech Music: at the Beginning of a Research Miloš Zapletal / [email protected] Faculty of Philosophy and Science, Silesian University in Opava, CZ Abstract The study deals with “civilist” [civilistní] tendencies in music and musical culture of the inter- war Czechoslovakia. The “civilism” [civilismus] in literature had its parallels in other areas of Czech artistic production too, especially in visual arts, and later – after the First World War – also in classical music. Since the culture of the First Czechoslovak Republic (1918–1938), being seen in its entirety, appears to be saturated with various reflections of modernity (either real modernity or imagined), the term “civilist” makes sense only when it refers to such works of art that unilaterally focus on representing the typical civilizational and civil moments and reali- ties of the 1920s and 30s: sports, physical education and other leisure activities, jazz, tango and popular musical culture in general, attributes of the metropolitan environment, technical devices, machinery, cars, motorcycles, klaxons, airplanes, film, cabaret, circus, bar and cock- tails, and various aspects of everyday urban life. Although the civilist tendencies represent a crucial and typical phenomenon of Czech music and musical culture of the inter-war period, musicology has reflected them only very little and has not approached them as a particular research problem so far. The present study proposes hypotheses and methodology for a fu- ture research on musical civilism, gives an overview of contemporary discourse about musical civilism, and presents the most important musical works and topics which the future research should focus on.