From laughter to forgetting

• Introduction
• 9

• I
• The Birth of the Avant-Garde: Between Avant-Garde, Expressionism, and Proletarian Art
• 23

• 1
• The Curtain Rises; At the Castle
• 32

• 2
• U. S. Devetsil: The Age Has Broken in Two…
• 38

• 3
• On New Art
• 40

• 4
• The Moon
• 45

• 5
• Devetsil
• 46

• 6
• Images and Fore-Images
• 49

• 7
• A Note
• 55

• 8
• A Poem Is Not an Apparition…
• 56

• 9
• The Form of Things
• 57

• 10
• On the Magazine Host, and Those Who Stand Behind It
• 58

• 11
• On Expressionism
• 63

• 12
• A Little Bit of a Polemic, a Little Bit of a Confession
• 68

• 13
• Proletarian Art
• 74

• 14
• New Proletarian Art: An Introduction
• 78

• 15
• Literary Group: Our Hope, Faith, and Work
• 98

• 16
• Poetics
• 101

• 17
• Theatrical Expressions of the Street
• 104

• 18
• The General Meeting of the Literary Group
• 107

• II
• From the World of Acrobats: Poetism and Constructivism
• 111

• 1
• Foto Kino Film
• 121

• 2
• Advertisement
• 139

• 3
• A Picture
• 143

• 4
• Parrot on a Motorcycle, or On the Craft of Poetry
• 146

• 5
• Poetism
• 151

• 6
• New Techniques in the Poetic Craft
• 159

• 7
• Constructivism and the Liquidation of "Art"
• 166

• 8
• Enough of Wolker!
• 176

• 9
• Film
• 178

• 10
• Host 4, or the Dissipated Dreams of the Paper of a Generation…
• 181

• 11
• Teigism
• 182

• 12
• Words, Words, Words
• 185

• 13
• A Popular Introduction to Artificialism
• 202

• 14
• Dada and Surrealism
• 204

• 15
• The Turtle That No One Mentions
• 205

• 16
• Harmony
• 209

• 17
• Karel Teige On Himself
• 213

• 18
• Šíma's Dolls
• 219

• 19
• ReD (= Devetsil Revue)…
• 220

• 20
• Buried Alive!
• 222

• 21
• A Notice About Poetism
• 223

• 22
• Resurrection of the Novel?
• 225

• 23
• To All Those Who This Year Have Declared…
• 228

• 24
• A Drop of Ink
• 230

• 25
• Manifesto of Poetism
• 241

• 26
• Ultraviolet Pictures, or Artificialism
• 250

• 27
• Guillaume Apollinaire
• 254

• 28
• Vest Pocket Revue
• 257

• 29
• In Its Third Year ReD Intends to Continue.…
• 260

• 30
• Poem, World, Human Being
• 262

• III
• Coming of Age: Crises and New Perspectives
• 273

• 1
• Education for Modernism
• 279

• 2
• The Barber (Poetics)
• 281

• 3
• Cozy Nook of a Generation 1
• 284

• 4
• Generation on Two Chairs
• 286

• 5
• Cozy Nook of a Generation 2
• 287

• 6
• Epilogue to Discussion About Generation on Two Chairs
• 289

• 7
• I Was Not, and Am Not, an Organized Communist…
• 295

• 8
• Cozy Nook of a Generation 3
• 297

• 9
• Crisis of Characters
• 299

• 10
• Manifesto of the Left Front
• 301

• 11
• On the Marxist Theory of Art
• 304

• 12
• On Words
• 307

• 13
• People in a "Laboratory'
• 310

• 14
• The End of the "Revolutionary" Avant-Garde
• 317

• 15
• In Defense of Individualism
• 320

• 16
• Little Prolegomena
• 326

• 17
• Introductory Remarks: Towards a Dialectics of Architecture and Sociology of Housing Forms
• 330

• IV
• Complicating the Real: Czech Surrealism
• 335

• 1
• Preface to She Wanted to Rob Lord Blamington: Poetry and Analysis
• 345

• 2
• Afterword to Jindrich Štyrsky, Emily Comes to Me in a Dream
• 350

• 3
• Surrealist Painting (a few notes)
• 355

• 4
• On Surrealism
• 358

• 5
• Ten Years of Surrealism
• 362

• 6
• What Is Surrealism?
• 365

• 7
• The Sur-Reality in Surrealism
• 369

• 8
• Socialist Realism and Surrealism
• 376

• 9
• Surrealist Photography
• 380

• 10
• A Word on the Situation of Surrealism in Our Country
• 382

• 11
• Czech-Slovak Cultural Relations
• 392

• 12
• An Attempt at Realizing the Irrationality of Photography
• 394

• 13
• Surrealisms Against the Current
• 396

• V
• Alternative Modernities: New Myths, Art, and Science
• 403

• 1
• The Right to Theory
• 416

• 2
• The Breakdown of Individuality and of Poetry
• 418

• 3
• Introduction
• 422

• 4
• On Building Towers
• 424

• 5
• Kvart
• 426

• 6
• On the Work Method
• 428

• 7
• On the Crisis of Crisisology
• 430

• 8
• In Today's World…
• 437

• 9
• On the Youngest Generation of Czech Poets
• 440

• 10
• Notes on "Today", "Reality" and "Czechness" in Poetry
• 442

• 11
• Myths
• 445

• 12
• A Word to the Young
• 456

• 13
• The World in Which We Live
• 460

• 14
• History
• 466

• 15
• Art Imitates Reality
• 470

• 16
• On the Contemporary Novel
• 479

• 17
• On Contemporary Czech Language Cleansing
• 481

• 18
• Dialectical Oppositions in Modern Art
• 486

• 19
• The Individual in Art
• 501

• Original Sources
• 507

• List of Illustrations
• 510

• Afterword and Editorial Note
• 513

• Index
• 519