Contents

Introduction: Minor Modernisms?

Be谩ta Hock, Klara Kemp-Welch, and Jonathan Owen

  1. In the Currents of the International Avant-Garde Movements

Krisztina Passuth

  1. Is the Cubism that is Czech Also Universal? Czech Art Theory (1921鈥1958) and Cubism as a Cultural and Transcultural Phenomenon

Marie Raku拧anov谩

  1. Parasitism

Andrzej Turowski听

  1. Palimpsest 鈥 A Possible Language for Interpreting Twentieth-Century Art History (As Illustrated by Ko拧ice Art of the 1920s)

Zuzana Barto拧ov谩

  1. Zden臎k Rykr and the Chocolate Factory

Vojt臎ch Lahoda

  1. A(bs)traction: The Czech Lands Amid the Centres of Modernity 1918鈥1950 (鈥(Not Only) on the Relationships Between the Fine and Applied Arts [Introduction]鈥 & 鈥楾he Decoration of Decorative Art鈥)

Hana Rousov谩

  1. The Magazine听Formi艣ci听and the Early International Contacts of the Polish Avant-Garde (1919鈥1921)

Przemyslaw Stro偶ek

  1. Balancing 鈥楢bsolute Painting鈥 and Reality: 慕udov铆t Fulla and the Paradoxes of Slovak Modernism

Katar铆na Bajcurov谩

  1. Biomorphism as Avant-Garde Deconstruction

Andrzej Turowski

  1. Rytm, Sanacja, and the Dream of Modern Art Patronage in Poland (1922鈥1932)

Ma艂gorzata Sears

  1. The Poverty of the Matriarchal Ornament and the Gleam of the Civilised Woman

Martina Pachmanov谩

  1. Modernity, Indifference, and Oblivion: Katarzyna Kobro and Maria Jarema

Waldemar Baraniewski听

  1. The Hungarian Prinner

J煤lia Cserba

  1. Old Worlds and the New Vision: The Ethnographic Modernism of Karel Plicka鈥檚听The Earth Sings听(1933)

Jonathan Owen

  1. Derkovits: The Artist and his Times

(鈥業ntroduction鈥 &听鈥Fade-ins: The Art of Gyula Derkovits and Interwar Hungarian Social Photography鈥)

Katalin Bakos and Andr谩s Zwickl

脕gnes Kusler and Merse P谩l Szeredi

  1. Modernism and the School of Arts and Crafts in Bratislava

Iva Moj啪i拧ov谩

  1. Looking Forwards or Back? Shifting Perspectives in the Venice Biennale鈥檚 Hungarian Exhibition: 1928 and 1948

Kinga B贸di

  1. Cypri谩n Majern铆k: From the Grotesque to the Tragic

Zs贸fia Kiss-Szem谩n

  1. 鈥楧o You See Anything?鈥 Asked Poussin: The听Informe, Bataille, and the Czech Surrealists

Lenka Byd啪ovsk谩

  1. A 鈥楳odern鈥 Official Art: The School of Rome

Julianna P. Sz疟cs

  1. Two Important Czech Institutions, 1938鈥1948

Lucie Zadra啪ilov谩 and Milan Pech

  1. Strzemi艅ski鈥檚 War

Luiza Nader

  1. 鈥楾he Joy of New Constructions in Times of Homelessness鈥: Marian Bogusz鈥檚 Art of the 1940s

Agata Pietrasik

  1. Artist Among the Ruins. Art in Poland of the 1940s and Surrealist Subtexts

Dorota Jarecka

  1. Film Montage and the Principle of Montage in Non-Cinematic Media, A Case Study: The Early Collages of Ji艡铆 Kol谩艡

Tom谩拧 Pospiszyl

  1. The European School and the Group of Abstract Artists (鈥楤etween the Ramparts: The Critical Reception of the European School and the Gallery of the Four Directions鈥 & 鈥楤roken Dolls: Central European Parallels and Connections鈥)

P茅ter Gy枚rgy and G谩bor Pataki听

  1. The Embodiment of Communist Utopia: Socialist Realism in Slovakia, 1948鈥1956

Zora Rusinov谩

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