AVANTGARDA MEZI IMAGINACÍ A IDEOLOGIÍ
AVANT-GARDE BETWEEN IMAGINATION AND IDEOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: Young artists attached to the group Devetsil at the beginning of the 20’s of the XXth Century sympathized with ideals of the socialist revolution and openly supported newly rising Czechoslovak Communist Part (CCP). Being influenced by the French avant-garde poetry (namely G.Apollinaire and early works of the French Surrealism) they decided to use Poetism (and later Surrealism) that liberates the human creativity and imagination as an adequate expression of their civil attitudes. After the take-over of the Gottwald’s leadership of the CCP in 1929 a chasm opened between the political and artistic profiling of the generation. This process culminated during the 30’s when a part of the avant-garde left the CCP due, in particular, to the events in the Soviet Union. This defection was revenged by the victorious CCP after 1948 when to a many of the former avant-garde artists a bad fate was prepared.

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