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Art and Life in Modernist Prague - Karel Capek and his Generation, 1911-1938 (Hardcover)
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Art and Life in Modernist Prague - Karel Capek and his Generation, 1911-1938 (Hardcover)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
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In most histories of Europe before the First World War, modern life
in Habsburg Mitteleuropa takes on a decidedly gloomy cast.
Centering on Vienna in the twilight years of the Austro-Hungarian
Empire, such accounts describe the failure of rationalism and the
rise of a dangerous politics of fantasy. This book tells a
different story, highlighting a generation of Czech writers and
artists distinguished by their affirmative encounter with the
modern world in the first decades of the twentieth century.
Novelist and playwright Karel Capek, along with other members of
his cohort, embraced the possibilities of the post-Habsburg era.
Tracing the roots of Capek's generation to cubist art and
turn-of-the-century philosophy, author Thomas Ort shows that the
form of modernism they championed led not into the thickets of
fascism or communism but in fact closer to liberal political
ideals.
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