High Modernism in Theory and Practice
Karel Teige and Tomáš Bat'a
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4209705 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jessica E Merrill (0000-0002-8310-140X), Jessica Merrill (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 428-454 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/slr.2017.85 |
| OpenAlex | W2729744032 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 17 |
This article compares Tomáš Bata's development of Zlín as a company town with the architectural theory of Karel Teige. Despite political differences- Bat'a was a champion of "American" capitalism, Teige a leader of the leftist avant-garde-they had unexpectedly similar ideas about architectural design and city planning. The article uses James C. Scott's definition of high modernism as a starting point to explain these commonalities, historically contextualizing the two men's thinking as a specific iteration of this ideology. Both, for instance, paradoxically sought to incorporate liberal, democratic values (typical of the rhetoric of state building in interwar Czechoslovakia) into their authoritarian plans. This analysis helps explain subsequent, socialist architectural developments, in which Teige's theory and Bat'a's practices were combined. In this, the article contributes to an understanding of Czechoslovakia's post-1948 cultural history not in terms of impositions from Moscow, but as building on native institutions
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Authoritarianism · Capitalism · Champion · Democracy · Ideology · Karel · Left-wing politics · Manifesto · Modernism (music · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Technocracy · Urbanism · Architecture · History · Law · Philosophy · Urbanization and City Planning
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2023 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |