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Art and life in modernist Prague = Karel Capek and his generation, 1911-1938 /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Art and life in modernist Prague/ Thomas Ort.
Reminder of title:	Karel Capek and his generation, 1911-1938 /
Author:	Ort, Thomas.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2013.,
Description:	1 online resource (277 pages).
Subject:	Arts, Czech - History and criticism. - 20th century -
Subject:	Prague (Czech Republic) - Fiction. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137077394
ISBN:	9781137077394 (electronic bk.)

Art and life in modernist Prague = Karel Capek and his generation, 1911-1938 /
Ort, Thomas.

Art and life in modernist PragueKarel Capek and his generation, 1911-1938 /[electronic resource] :Thomas Ort. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2013. - 1 online resource (277 pages). - Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. - Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Prague 1911: The Cubist City; 2 Between Life and Form: Karel Capek and the Prewar Modernist Generation; 3 The Lessons of Life: Karel Capek and the First World War; 4 Art? Life: The Capek Generation and Devetsil in Interwar Czechoslovakia; 5 The Self as Empty Space and Crowd: Karel Capek and the Czechoslovak Condition; Conclusion; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

In most contemporary historical writing, the picture of modernlife in Habsburg Central Europe is rather gloomy. Centered on Vienna in the twilightyears of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, it is the story of the failure of rationalismand the rise of a politics of fantasy culminating in protofascist movements. Thisbook tells a different story, focusing on the generation of Czech writers andartists distinguished by their optimistic view of the world in the years before theFirst World War. These figures, most notably Karel Capek, greeted the collapse ofthe Habsburg monarchy not with despair and trepid.

ISBN: 9781137077394 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Personal Names:

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�Capek, Karel,
1890-1938--Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Arts, Czech
--History and criticism.--20th centurySubjects--Geographical Terms:

844754
Prague (Czech Republic)
--Fiction.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PG5038.C3 / Z828 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 943.712032

Art and life in modernist Prague = Karel Capek and his generation, 1911-1938 /
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