A contribution from the conference 'The Second Avant-garde' (part of the grant-funded project 'The Myths, Language, and Taboos of the Czech Post-Avant-garde from the Forties to the Sixties'), which was held on 23 October 2007. On the basis of two fundamental Avant-garde texts - 'K otazkam avantgardy a nastupu nove generace' (Questions of the Avant-garde and the coming of the new generation) by Karel Teige (1900-1951) and 'Snad nic, snad neco' (Perhaps nothing, perhaps something) by Jiri Kolar (1914-2002) - the author considers the relationships amongst the individual generations of the Avant-garde and their development from the 1920s to the 1960s. He demonstrates the differences amongst the individual Avant-garde groups (generations) resistance (created, he argues, by Teige) to the widespread understanding of the Avant-garde's being monolithic. His primary attention is on Teige and Kolar, two leading figures of the Czech Avant-garde.
A contribution from the conference 'The Second Avant-garde' (part of the grant-funded project 'The Myths, Language, and Taboos of the Czech Post-Avant-garde from the Forties to the Sixties'), which was held on 23 October 2007. The discussion comprises questions raised at the conference, followed by the responses offered there. It includes the problem of the appellation 'The Second Avant-garde', belonging or not belonging to the Avant-garde, and contemporaneous perceptions of artists.
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