New stimuli for optophonetic works. Reflections of science in the theoretical texts of the architect František Kalivoda

0545337 - ÚDU 2022 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Svobodová, Markéta
New stimuli for optophonetic works. Reflections of science in the theoretical texts of the architect František Kalivoda.
Umění = Art. Roč. 68, č. 4 (2020), s. 378-388. ISSN 0049-5123
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA19-18891S
Institutional support: RVO:68378033
Keywords : avant-garde * optophonetic * multimedia * architecture
OECD category: Arts, Art history
Method of publishing: Limited access

Although in the second half of the 1930s Kalivoda was extremely busy as the secretary of the Eastern Section of the International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM-Ost), in 1937 he published a noteworthy article in Vytvarna vychova (Art Education) magazine entitled ‘New Stimuli for Optophonetic Works’. In the title he used the term ‘optophonetics’, which was introduced in the artistic environment by the Austrian experimenter and ‘Dadasoph’ Raoul Hausmann. In 1937, Hausmann moved from Switzerland to Prague, and began to correspond regularly with Kalivoda. This article takes a look at their mutual contacts, and also examines the extent to which Hausmann’s ideas influenced the young František Kalivoda.

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