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Part of the book: The Integrity of the Avant-Garde

Peter Zusi

Visual Culture 2

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Abstract.  This chapter examines the emergence of the ideal of Ars Una and the shift in Teige’s understanding of Poetism at the end of the 1920s towards adoption of a psychoanalytic vocabulary of drives, which ultimately prepared the ground for his acceptance of Surrealism in the mid 1930s. Two particular conceptual shifts stand out here: a move from monofunctionalism to polyfunctionalism, and an embrace of aesthetic autonomy (in contrast to the previous ideal of integrating art and life). These shifts are analysed by comparison with Mukařovský’s Structuralist aesthetics and his efforts to define a specifically aesthetic function.

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