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The Windmills of Humanity: On Culture and Surrealism in the Manipulated World

By Ivan Sviták

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Publisher
Charles H. Kerr
Year
2014
ISBN
9780882861272
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3709451 bytes)
Pages
148\149
Time added
2021-08-18 02:47:46

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"The surrealists postulated that art should cease to be art, and they insisted that they were not artists and were not interested in art. According to their theory, the present phase of civilization (the phase of class societies) created the fundamental division between the human creator and the human user of art. Their great vision that “art will be made by all” was not (and is not) only a romantic illusion inherited from Hegel and the utopians. It is still a magnificent chal- lenge to the social conditions—both then and now—which led to the separation of art and life..." — Ivan Sviták, “Surrealism and Art” Philosopher and critic Ivan Sviták was among the leading Czech intellectuals during the lead-up to the “Prague Spring” of 1968, when tentative reforms by Communist Party leaders in Czechoslovakia sparked a mass movement for democratic socialism. By the time a Soviet-led invasion put an end to this movement and forced Sviták into exile, Sviták had influenced a generation of politicized youth with his works of Marxist humanist philosophy, social commentary, cultural critique, unconventional poetry, and satirical prose. This book‘s editor, Joseph Grim Feinberg, is a social theorist at the Philosophy Institute of the Czech Republic‘s Academy of Sciences and—like Sviták—has collaborated closely with surrealist groups in Chicago and Prague. Taking up Sviták’s own, largely-unrealized proposals for publication, Grim Feinberg has collected Sviták’s most provocative writing on aesthetic theory, interspersing it with a selection of Sviták’s poetry and creative prose. In the resulting volume, Sviták explores the possibility of a world in which art will be “made by all,” and he defends humanity’s quixotic right to fight against old illusions so that new illusions might be born. Human, All Too Human? (Introduction and Homage to Ivan Svitak) by Joseph Grim Feinberg Essay I: The Human Being and Utopia anti-essay 1: the monologue of Alexander's sword Essay II: Interpreting a Work of Art anti-essay 2: introduction to dialectical materialism Essay III: Conscience of the Nation? The Literature of Consumer Society anti-essay 3: little base and little superstructure Essay IV: The Art of the Epoch anti-essay 4: the story of a sword Essay V: The Civilization of the Eye anti-essay 5: feeling Essay VI: Evolutions in the Structure of Film Language anti-essay 6: the monologue of a human shadow Essay VII: Prolegomena to Love anti-essay 7: a private mythology Essay VIII: The Historical Limits of Surrealism anti-essay 8: the law of ketman Essay IX: The Surrealist Image of Humankind anti-essay 9: labyrinth Essay X: Surrealism and Art anti-essay 10: the dialectics of wisdom Essay XI: Questions of Surrealism by Vratislav Effenberger and Ivan Svitak anti-essay 11: separation Editorial Notes Books by Ivan Svitak

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