TY - BOOK AU - Sayer,Derek TI - Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History SN - 9781400865444 U1 - 700.9437120904 23 PY - 2021///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Surrealism KW - Czech Republic KW - Prague KW - HISTORY / Europe / Eastern KW - bisacsh KW - 1939 New York World's Fair KW - 20th-century art KW - Adolf Hitler KW - Adolf KW - Agnes Smedley KW - Aldous Huxley KW - Art Nouveau KW - Baroque architecture KW - Berliner Tageblatt KW - Bertolt Brecht KW - Between Hitler and Stalin KW - Buchenwald concentration camp KW - Caracas KW - Cubism KW - Czech Cubism KW - Czech Dream KW - Czech art KW - Czechoslovakia KW - Czechs KW - Dada KW - Degenerate Art Exhibition KW - Degenerate art KW - Ernst May KW - Felix Dzerzhinsky KW - Feuilleton KW - Franz Kafka KW - Franz Werfel KW - François Rabelais KW - George Grosz KW - Georges Bataille KW - Georges-Eugène Haussmann KW - Gertrude Stein KW - Gottfried Benn KW - Guillaume Apollinaire KW - Harper's Bazaar KW - Harpo Marx KW - Haussmann's renovation of Paris KW - Holocaust denial KW - Hussite Wars KW - Hussites KW - Imperial Army (Holy Roman Empire) KW - Jan Hus KW - John Heartfield KW - Josef Sudek KW - Julietta KW - Karel Teige KW - Karl August Wittfogel KW - Karl Kraus (writer) KW - Karlovy Vary KW - Kindertransport KW - Kingdom of Bohemia KW - Kurt Schwitters KW - Le Corbusier KW - Le Monde KW - Leonora Carrington KW - Louis Aragon KW - Manifesto of Futurism KW - Marcel Breuer KW - Marcel Duchamp KW - Mark Rothko KW - Marquis de Sade KW - Max Beckmann KW - Max Brod KW - Max Ernst KW - Milan Kundera KW - Modern Rome KW - Modernism KW - Modernity KW - Moscow Trials KW - Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague KW - Nadja (novel) KW - Nazi Party KW - Nazism KW - Necromancy KW - Neo-impressionism KW - Neville Chamberlain KW - Nuremberg Rally KW - Osip Mandelstam KW - Oskar Kokoschka KW - Otto Dix KW - Politique KW - Prague Hotel KW - Prague Spring KW - Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia KW - Romanticism KW - The Age of Extremes KW - The Myth of the Twentieth Century KW - The Postmodern Condition KW - Theatre of the Absurd KW - Thirty Years' War KW - Tosca KW - Tristan Tzara KW - Twenty Years After KW - Vsevolod Meyerhold KW - Wannsee Conference KW - Wassily Kandinsky KW - Zwinger (Dresden) KW - Zygmunt Bauman N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Translation and Pronunciation --; Introduction --; 1 The Starry Castle Opens --; 2 Zone --; 3 Metamorphoses --; 4 Modernism in the Plural --; 5 Body Politic --; 6 On the Edge of an Abyss --; 7 Love’s Boat Shattered against Everyday Life --; 8 The Gold of Time --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - The story of modernity told through a cultural history of twentieth-century PragueSetting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the "city of light," Walter Benjamin dubbed Paris "the capital of the nineteenth century." In this eagerly anticipated sequel to his acclaimed Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History, Derek Sayer argues that Prague could well be seen as the capital of the much darker twentieth century. Ranging across twentieth-century Prague's astonishingly vibrant and always surprising human landscape, this richly illustrated cultural history describes how the city has experienced (and suffered) more ways of being modern than perhaps any other metropolis.Located at the crossroads of struggles between democratic, communist, and fascist visions of the modern world, twentieth-century Prague witnessed revolutions and invasions, national liberation and ethnic cleansing, the Holocaust, show trials, and snuffed-out dreams of "socialism with a human face." Yet between the wars, when Prague was the capital of Europe's most easterly parliamentary democracy, it was also a hotbed of artistic and architectural modernism, and a center of surrealism second only to Paris.Focusing on these years, Sayer explores Prague's spectacular modern buildings, monuments, paintings, books, films, operas, exhibitions, and much more. A place where the utopian fantasies of the century repeatedly unraveled, Prague was tailor-made for surrealist André Breton's "black humor," and Sayer discusses the way the city produced unrivaled connoisseurs of grim comedy, from Franz Kafka and Jaroslav Hasek to Milan Kundera and Václav Havel. A masterful and unforgettable account of a city where an idling flaneur could just as easily be a secret policeman, this book vividly shows why Prague can teach us so much about the twentieth century and what made us who we are UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400865444?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400865444 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400865444/original ER -