"These terms crumbled in my mouth like mouldy fungi": The Birth of of Aesthetic Innovations from the Crisis of Modernity (between Hermeneutics and Phenomenology)
2019
Abstract
With the start of the 20th century, the arrival of modernism in art and the emergence of artistic groups, the lands of Central Europe became a unique zone of artistic and cultural contacts. Paris may have continued as the centre and metropolis of Modernism, but the "outer edges" felt the impact of a distinctive cultural dynamism which gave rise simultaneously to psychoanalysis, phenomenology, Gestalt psychology and, somewhat later, the Prague Linguistic Circle and the Vienna Circle, the Bauhaus of Weimar and Dessau, the particular forms of Czech Cubism, which soon took a new direction independent of Paris, Expressionism, Dada and Poetism.