Art and Life in Modernist Prague: Karel Čapek and His Generation, 1911-1938

By Thomas Ort and Ort

Book Overview

1. Prague 1911: The Cubist City
2. Between Life and Form: Karel ?apek and the Prewar Modernist Generation
3. The Lessons of Life: Karel ?apek and the First World War
4. Art ? Life: The '?apek Generation' and Dev?tsil in Interwar Czechoslovakia
5. The Self as Empty Space and Crowd: Karel ?apek and the Czechoslovak Condition

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349295329
• ISBN13: 9781349295326
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"