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Book Review: Modernity, History, and Politics in Czech Art

Book Review: Modernity, History, and Politics in Czech Art sModernity, History, and Politics in Czech Art takes as its goal the tracing of how the shifting political environment between 1895 and 1939 influenced the development of Czech art, art criticism, art history, and theory. The book looks not only at the increasingly well-known avant-garde art of the period but also beyond, “to the peripheries of modern art,” to study how “narratives of modern art were formed in constant negotiation and dialogue” with efforts to be international and desires to remain “authentically local” (n.p.).sThis is an important topic for understanding the Czech art world—and indeed the Czech cultural world more broadly—of the first half of the twentieth century. This was the period during which Austria-Hungary collapsed and Czechoslovakia was founded, when empire gave way to democracy, ethnic and linguistic identities were encouraged (not remarkably successfully) to join in Czechoslovakism, and when artistic modernism was developing rapidly in Central Europe. And while interest in the Czech avant-garde has grown in the English-speaking world post–Velvet Revolution, little scholarship has been available in English that really situates the Czech avant-garde within its larger Czech/Czechoslovak context. In particular, we need to remember that the Czech avant-garde (like any avant-garde) was by definition a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Austrian History Yearbook Cambridge University Press

Book Review: Modernity, History, and Politics in Czech Art

Huebner, Karla
Austrian History Yearbook , Volume 52: 2 – May 1, 2021
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota.
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sModernity, History, and Politics in Czech Art takes as its goal the tracing of how the shifting political environment between 1895 and 1939 influenced the development of Czech art, art criticism, art history, and theory. The book looks not only at the increasingly well-known avant-garde art of the period but also beyond, “to the peripheries of modern art,” to study how “narratives of modern art were formed in constant negotiation and dialogue” with efforts to be international and desires to remain “authentically local” (n.p.).sThis is an important topic for understanding the Czech art world—and indeed the Czech cultural world more broadly—of the first half of the twentieth century. This was the period during which Austria-Hungary collapsed and Czechoslovakia was founded, when empire gave way to democracy, ethnic and linguistic identities were encouraged (not remarkably successfully) to join in Czechoslovakism, and when artistic modernism was developing rapidly in Central Europe. And while interest in the Czech avant-garde has grown in the English-speaking world post–Velvet Revolution, little scholarship has been available in English that really situates the Czech avant-garde within its larger Czech/Czechoslovak context. In particular, we need to remember that the Czech avant-garde (like any avant-garde) was by definition a

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Published: May 1, 2021

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