The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism. Vol. 1, Movements

0519683 - FLÚ 2020 GB eng M - Monography Chapter
Feinberg, Joseph Grim - Solařík, B.
Devětsil.
The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism. Vol. 1, Movements. London: Bloomsbury, 2019 - (Richardson, M.; Ades, D.; Fijałkowski, K.), s. 510-512. ISBN 978-1-4742-2686-8
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Keywords : avant-garde * Devětsil * Czechoslovakia * Vítězslav Nezval * Karel Teige * the Group of Surrealists of Czechoslovakia
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

This encyclopedia entry describes the work of the Czech avant-garde group Devětsil and places the group’s work in the context of interwar Czechoslovakia and its role as a precursor to the later Group of Surrealists of Czechoslovakia. The text also discusses the group's theoretical framework offered by Karel Teige and Vítězslav Nezval.
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