"Minulost umění" - modernost surrealismu
"The past of Art": The Modernity of Surrealism

Summary/Abstract: 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 article considers Karel Teige’s (1900–1951) attitude to the Avant-garde, particularly his attitude to echoes of the Avant-garde, and also his perception of the Avant-garde in the 1940s. Using examples, the article discusses Teige’s perception of art as a dialectic fact. It considers his attitude to Hegel and the ideas of the art historian Max Dvořák (1874–1921), particularly Dvořák’s conception of art history as history of the mind and Dvořák’s call for a unity of art scholarship and art.

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