Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2018
Abstract
Karel Teige's theorising about art and aesthetics is itself compelling evidence that despite the loudly proclaimed break with the tradition of the artists of the previous decade the avant-garde does have its continuity associated with (symbolist) modernism as a long -term phenomenon with a strong temporal aspect. For Teige's view of avant -garde and modern art in general as a lyricisation of life (and the world), of life's transformation into a 'poem, into a 'poetry for all the senses' (this following on from the Romantics' vision of the Gesamtkunstwerk that would incorporate life itself), the above conception is of fundamental importance.