East Central European Center is pleased to host a webinar series on interwar art and culture.
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Central European Center is pleased to host a webinar series on interwar
art and culture. This series focuses on artists from East Central
Europe whose art practices and contributions to various local and
international avant-gardes have attracted less or no critical attention
within Modernism Studies.
The avant-garde demand for crossing aesthetic boundaries within the domain of everyday life does not necessarily nullify the modernist right of art to its autonomy, but seeks to understand art as a practice accessible to all and based on the belief in its power to fundamentally change and improve social conditions. The avant-garde replaced the modernist perception of the uniqueness of the work of art that yields aesthetic pleasure isolated from practical life, with the direct call for “Art into life!” The repercussion of efforts to abolish the distance between art and life is characterized, above all, by the fact that we no longer speak of avant-garde texts or objects in the categories of literary work or aesthetic artwork, but in the categories of literary, or rather, avant-garde manifestations. The East Central Vanguard webinar series is devoted to an investigation of artists from East Central Europe whose lives and art practices deserve to be credited amongst such avant-garde manifestations.
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
MARCH 23, 2021
MARCH 30, 2021
APRIL 6, 2021
The Zenithist Woman
Žarka Svirčev (Institute for Literature and Arts, Belgrade)
APRIL 20, 2021
The avant-garde demand for crossing aesthetic boundaries within the domain of everyday life does not necessarily nullify the modernist right of art to its autonomy, but seeks to understand art as a practice accessible to all and based on the belief in its power to fundamentally change and improve social conditions. The avant-garde replaced the modernist perception of the uniqueness of the work of art that yields aesthetic pleasure isolated from practical life, with the direct call for “Art into life!” The repercussion of efforts to abolish the distance between art and life is characterized, above all, by the fact that we no longer speak of avant-garde texts or objects in the categories of literary work or aesthetic artwork, but in the categories of literary, or rather, avant-garde manifestations. The East Central Vanguard webinar series is devoted to an investigation of artists from East Central Europe whose lives and art practices deserve to be credited amongst such avant-garde manifestations.
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Alexandra Chiriac (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
MARCH 23, 2021
Meghan Forbes (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
MARCH 30, 2021
Gábor Dobó (Kassák Museum – Petőfi Literary Museum, Budapest)
APRIL 6, 2021
The Zenithist Woman
Žarka Svirčev (Institute for Literature and Arts, Belgrade)
APRIL 20, 2021
Michalina Kmiecik (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
2022.01.11