Cubism - Constructivism - Form Art. Klimt, Kupka, Picasso and others

0461339 - ÚDU 2017 DE eng M - Monography Chapter
Lahoda, Vojtěch
Cubism in Prague as a Form Art?
Cubism - Constructivism - Form Art. Klimt, Kupka, Picasso and others. Munich: Prestel, 2016 - (Husslein-Arco, A.; Klee, A.), s. 35-43. ISBN 978-3-7913-5547-4
Institutional support: RVO:68378033
Keywords : theory of Cubism * old masters * Emil Filla * Pavel Janák * Vlastislav Hofman
Subject RIV: AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage

In October 1911 The Group of Fine Artists started to publish the periodical Umělecký měsíčník (Art Monthly). Editors have created a discourse of styles and different, often incomparable cultures. Visual discourse through reproductions published in UM should support universal status of "new art", as members of the group labeled the type of art to which they were heading. According to what key they assessed such diverse works, like the Donatello, Tintoretto or Chinese scroll or Indian miniature? They were convinced that the analysis of form is the way to the acceptance of a very culturally and historically remote work. Their concept of form was kind of fulfillment of Alois Riegl´s concept of Kunstwollen. Form is immanent, metaphysical. It is the only sign of high artistic performance.
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