The Avant-Garde between the (Self-)Affirmation and (Self-)Criticism, utopian Unity of Art and Life and an Scepticism of "Faith in the Future"

Abstract

In the foreground is the question regarding the extent to which and in what way Czech surrealism during the 1950s and 1960s had remained bound up with the pre-war avant-garde and whether we can speak of a neo-avant-garde in connection with Czech post-war surrealism.

Keywords

• Avant-Garde
• the end of Avant-Garde
• post-war discussion about Avant-Garde