The Sacred Cause

This book is about Modernism and Avant-Garde movements in Central and Eastern European art around the last turn of the century. It sketches a surrealistic, bewildering, irrational arena. At the same time, the reader is offered a differentiated view on the complex whole of the avantgarde scene in Eastern Europe.

Autorentext

Tom Sandqvist is Professor and Docent of Art History and Theory of Art at the University College of Arts, Crafts, and Design in Stockholm, and the University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland.

Inhalt

Contents: Miroslav Krleäs Teresienburg, Internationale Ausstellung Revolutionärer Künstler in Berlin, and the Uproar in Düsseldorf Lithuanian « la belle époque » and the Birth of Polish Constructivism Ljubomir Mici , the Barbaro-Genius, Zenitism, and Yugoslavian Dadaism Lajos Kassák, Activism, Constructivism, and the Hungarian Soviet Republic Karel Teige, Dev tsil, Poetism, and the Czech Avant-Garde Polish Dada, Witkacy, the Polish Avant-Garde, and Nationalism «Halb-Asien», Sociological Circumstances, Conditions of Life, and a Remarkable Exhibition in Lemberg Symbolism, Messianism, Przybyszewski, Nationalism, and the Polish People Alfons Mucha, Franz Kafka, Franz Werfel, Bohemian Nationalism, and the Czech Turn of the Century Mihály Munkácsy, Endre Ady, Hungarian Symbolism, and the City at the Danube.