Different esthetics - conceptualism and transmediality in Czech literature after the Second World War
2010
Abstract
Political isolation, the doctrine of Socialist Realism and the devaluation of verbal communication produced in Czech literature of the fifties innovative trends, which partially anticipated analogous western european trends. In addition to the negation of traditional literary genres and media boundaries poets such as Jiří Kolář and Vladimír Burda attempted to realize a poetic thought using different non-verbal media formats or transmedial techniques.
Important methods of this 'conceptual poetry' were the use of automatism, the denial of the author and the use of conventional artistic methods in a new function or the transfer of found artefacts in a new context