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André Breton on French and Czech stages

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Orawczak Kunešová M.

Theatralia: Revue současného myšlení o divadelní kultuře (Theatralia: The revue of contemporary thought on theatre culture)

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2022

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vol. 25

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issue 1

87-108

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The study intends to explore the impact André Breton's plays had on the interwar stagings in France and Czechoslovakia. I will focus on two of Breton's plays, If You Please (written together with Soupault in 1919, staged in Paris in 1920 and in Prague in 1928) and Le Trésor des jésuites [The Treasure of the Jesuits] (written with Aragon in 1929, world premiere in Prague in 1935, not translated in English), and their staging specificities, including the context: reasons of their staging choice, translation, and reception. The intention of this study is to contribute to the debate regarding the relationship between French and Czech Surrealism.

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The Persistence of Poetry in Karel Teige’s Outlook

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Silverman T.

Slovo a smysl - Word & Sense

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2021

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vol. 18

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issue 36

64-78

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Karel Teige’s enduring interest in the essence of poetry may help explain the outward promotion of his 1920s textual-visual works in contrast to his more muted treatment of the Surrealist photomontage collages that he produced from 1935 to 1951. Teige, a central figure of the Czechoslovak avantgarde, demonstrated throughout his voluminous theoretical pieces a continuous fixation on poetry. He wrote and published rationales for his earlier textual-visual works, yet left a lack thereof concerning his 374 Surrealist photomontages. Though Teige declared himself a Surrealist in 1934, Surrealism may not have interested him in the same way as Czechoslovak Poetism or the implementation of aesthetic concepts borrowed from his counterparts in Russia and Germany. In this essay, Teige’s proclamations about pictorial matters, poetry, modern art ideologies, typography, and the ‘inner model’ theory have been applied towards his pre-Surrealist, textual-visual works, in contradistinction to his later photomontages, to suggest why he did not promulgate the latter artworks to the same extent as the former. Examples of his 1920s picture poems in a lucid Poetist style present harmonized layouts of words, symbols, and cut-outs arranged into semiotic order. As a typographer, Teige stressed the importance of the ‘nature, rhythm, and flow’ of poetic texts, and his works also reveal careful reflection on the design of graphemes. It is, however, his fascination with linguistic matters, e.g. poetry and letters — a matter in which many of his Surrealist collages appear not to have taken much interest — that remains most obscure, lacking any contextual explanation. Suffused with fragmented corporeal forms and erotic imagery amid variegated scenery, Teige’s vivid post-1935 photomontages have drawn the attention and speculation of many art historians.

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Od sociálně-demokratické spirituality k socialistickému realismu: koncept lidovosti v myšlení Jindřicha Honzla o divadle

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Kunderová R.

Theatralia: Revue současného myšlení o divadelní kultuře (Theatralia: The revue of contemporary thought on theatre culture)

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2021

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vol. 24

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issue 1

188-215

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The study examines the concept of "the popular" in the thinking of theatre director and theorist Jindřich Honzl (1894–1953). By analyzing his essays and articles, the essay describes the changes in Honzl's approach to the popular as reflected in his critical writing during his theatre career and as placed within the context of politics and theatre history. Based on the discussion of existing Czech theatre historiographic literature about Honzl (the majority of which was published before 1989), the study offers novel findings and connections, many of which have been ignored, often for ideological reasons. The essay brings a close study of Honzl's sources of inspiration, from the beginnings of his work in the era of the so-called proletarian theatre, especially by embedding Honzl's thinking in the social democratic ideology and his knowledge of post-revolutionary Soviet theatre until 1925. The essay subsequently offers a characterization of the changes in Honzl's understanding of "the popular" during his Poetism and Surrealist phases, as well as after the Second World War, when he converted to Socialist Realism.

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Studie zkoumá koncept lidovosti v myšlení divadelního režiséra a teoretika Jindřicha Honzla (1894–1953). Prostřednictvím analýzy jeho studií a článků autorka pojmenovává proměny pojetí lidovosti v Honzlově uvažování během jeho divadelní kariéry a zasazuje je do divadelně-historického a politického kontextu. Na základě diskuse s dosavadní českou divadelně-historiografickou literaturou o Honzlovi, jejíž většina byla publikována před rokem 1989, přináší studie poznatky a souvislosti, které byly dosud – nezřídka z ideologických důvodů – opomíjeny. Autorka se podrobně zabývá Honzlovými inspiračními zdroji na počátku jeho divadelní činnosti v období tzv. proletářského divadla, zejména ukotvením Honzlova myšlení v sociálně-demokratické ideologii a jeho obeznámeností s porevolučním sovětským divadlem do roku 1925. Následně charakterizuje proměny Honzlova chápání lidovosti divadla v průběhu jeho poetistického a surrealistického období a po konci druhé světové války, kdy se přiklonil k socialistickému realismu.

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André Breton on French and Czech stages

The Persistence of Poetry in Karel Teige’s Outlook

Od sociálně-demokratické spirituality k socialistickému realismu: koncept lidovosti v myšlení Jindřicha Honzla o divadle