While few would nowadays dispute Prague's claim to be "the second city of surrealism" after Paris, the popular notion that there is an intrinsic affinity between the Bohemian capital and the surrealist worldview—as first asserted by André Breton in 1935—is far more problematic. This article debunks the myth of "surrealist Prague," arguing that the coming together of former Czech poetists and French surrealists in the mid-1930s owed far more to the unique political circumstances of the time than to anything in the city's genius loci. If there is anything that makes Prague a fitting object of a surrealist sensibility it is the city's modern history, not its mythologized "magical" past
textThis report analyzes André Breton’s particular brand of travel-writing that emerges from his fou...
The aim of the article is to analyse the influence of occultism on the development of the Central Eu...
CZECH SURREALISM AND CZECH NEW WAVE REALISM: THE IMPORTANCE OF OBJECTS AbstractThis article examines...
Setting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the “city...
Ce travail se propose d’étudier le croisement des poétiques urbaines produit par les voyagesà Paris ...
An exercise in humour noir, this essay explores relations between the Paris and Prague surrealist gr...
TITLE : Paris-Prague : converging surrealist views. Poetical birth of town AUTHOR : Sophie Ireland D...
Item does not contain fulltextThis book offers a new perspective on a long-debated issue: the role o...
This article narrates for the first time the competing views over Impressionism in America and Franc...
The study analyzes the influence of surrealism on the Czech theatre in the twenties and the thirties...
First part of this study is about history and most important writers of surrealism in France and Cze...
Although known as one of the most doctrinaire movements of the historical avant-garde – mostly due t...
It has been said that Surrealism was nothing if not deeply involved with occultism and Western esote...
The history of Romanian surrealism has proved that even the seemingly most marginal and short‑lived ...
As André Breton and his fellow surrealists never tired of affirming, the transformative surrealizing...
textThis report analyzes André Breton’s particular brand of travel-writing that emerges from his fou...
The aim of the article is to analyse the influence of occultism on the development of the Central Eu...
CZECH SURREALISM AND CZECH NEW WAVE REALISM: THE IMPORTANCE OF OBJECTS AbstractThis article examines...
Setting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the “city...
Ce travail se propose d’étudier le croisement des poétiques urbaines produit par les voyagesà Paris ...
An exercise in humour noir, this essay explores relations between the Paris and Prague surrealist gr...
TITLE : Paris-Prague : converging surrealist views. Poetical birth of town AUTHOR : Sophie Ireland D...
Item does not contain fulltextThis book offers a new perspective on a long-debated issue: the role o...
This article narrates for the first time the competing views over Impressionism in America and Franc...
The study analyzes the influence of surrealism on the Czech theatre in the twenties and the thirties...
First part of this study is about history and most important writers of surrealism in France and Cze...
Although known as one of the most doctrinaire movements of the historical avant-garde – mostly due t...
It has been said that Surrealism was nothing if not deeply involved with occultism and Western esote...
The history of Romanian surrealism has proved that even the seemingly most marginal and short‑lived ...
As André Breton and his fellow surrealists never tired of affirming, the transformative surrealizing...
textThis report analyzes André Breton’s particular brand of travel-writing that emerges from his fou...
The aim of the article is to analyse the influence of occultism on the development of the Central Eu...
CZECH SURREALISM AND CZECH NEW WAVE REALISM: THE IMPORTANCE OF OBJECTS AbstractThis article examines...