A Center One Day, a Periphery Next: Shifting Configurations of the Czech Avant‑garde
A Center One Day, a Periphery Next: Shifting Configurations of the Czech Avant‑garde

Summary/Abstract: Recent discussions about the interwar avant‑ garde repeatedly touch on the issue of center and periphery, especially as regards the relation between East and West. The overall direction of these studies suggests that the assumption of a configuration in which the West is central, hence dominating, is wrong. Instead, alternative models of structures should be fleshed out in which everyone is on a par, hence no asymmetries, no centers, no peripheries. An often‑ quoted proposal that points in this direction is Piotr Piotrowski’s approach in which what is understood as the vertical model of the avant‑ garde – and modern art – is replaced by a horizontal model.

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