‘Avant-garde Theory in the 1960s’ (Translation of Vratislav Effenberger, ‘The Concept of the Avant-Garde’ and Critical Introduction)
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Art East/Central |
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| web | https://journals.phil.muni.cz/arteastcentral/issue/view/2720/705 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/AEC2024-4-3 |
| Keywords | André Breton; avant-garde; creative imagination; dialectics; Marxist aesthetics; Paris; Prague Spring; surrealis |
| Description | Vratislav Effenberger is remembered primarily as the heir to Karel Teige from the 1950s and, as such, the leading representative of Surrealism in post-war Czechoslovakia. The editor of Teige’s collected writ-ings, as well as of anthologies of Surrealist texts, he wrote numerous articles on contemporary art and culture, with a focus on the legacy of relevance of Surrealism in the 1950s and 1960s. This text consists of a translation of a chapter from his only book-length theoretical study, Reality and the Poetic (1969), in which he offered an interpretation of the history of the avant-garde as well as a theoretical elaboration of avant-garde aesthetics. The translated chapter is prefaced with an introduction that provides a historical and intellectual background to Effenberger’s work, including discussion of his marginalization by the socialist authorities as well as emphasis on key concepts in his work. |