Thomas Ort
Biographic Data
| ID | 5844119 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Ort |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Ort |
| SIGNATURE | ORT T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queens College, City University of New York, Queens, NY, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Art
In the opening pages of his remarkable book about Marcel Duchamp, Jerrold Seigel writes that the French artist “cared more about his personal independence than he did about art itself. Beneath the succession of avant-garde movements there had always lurked an impulse of radical individualism, and no one represented it better than Marcel Duchamp” ( PW , 10). Given the subject matter of this essay—the place of art in Seigel's thinking—it may seem o…
Carl Schorske in Prague
In this essay, I describe the ways I have used some of the classic methods and models of intellectual history not only to integrate East European literary figures into wider European cultural debates, but also to re-cast the East–West boundaries of those debates
Art and Life in Modernist Prague
In most contemporary historical writing the picture of modern life in Habsburg Central Europe is a gloomy story of the failure of rationalism and the rise of protofascist movements. This book tells a
Andrea Orzoff, Battle for the Castle
Art and Life in Avant-Garde Prague, 1920–1924
This essay outlines the unique interpretation of the avant-garde formulated in the early 1920s by the Czech novelist, playwright, and cultural critic Karel Čapek (1890–1938). Whereas in Theory of the Avant-Garde (1974) Peter Bürger argued that the central problem of the avant-garde was its failure to effect a genuine reconciliation of art and life, Čapek, in contrast, worried about the prospect of success. Closely observing the practices of the C…
No prominent works on this page.
Art and Life in Avant-Garde Prague, 1920–1924
This essay outlines the unique interpretation of the avant-garde formulated in the early 1920s by the Czech novelist, playwright, and cultural critic Karel Čapek (1890–1938). Whereas in Theory of the Avant-Garde (1974) Peter Bürger argued that the central problem of the avant-garde was its failure to effect a genuine reconciliation of art and life, Čapek, in contrast, worried about the prospect of success. Closely observing the practices of the C…
Andrea Orzoff, Battle for the Castle
Art and Life in Modernist Prague
In most contemporary historical writing the picture of modern life in Habsburg Central Europe is a gloomy story of the failure of rationalism and the rise of protofascist movements. This book tells a
Carl Schorske in Prague
In this essay, I describe the ways I have used some of the classic methods and models of intellectual history not only to integrate East European literary figures into wider European cultural debates, but also to re-cast the East–West boundaries of those debates
Art
In the opening pages of his remarkable book about Marcel Duchamp, Jerrold Seigel writes that the French artist “cared more about his personal independence than he did about art itself. Beneath the succession of avant-garde movements there had always lurked an impulse of radical individualism, and no one represented it better than Marcel Duchamp” ( PW , 10). Given the subject matter of this essay—the place of art in Seigel's thinking—it may seem o…
Art history (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (2 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · European Cultural and National Identity (2 works) · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics (2 works)