Literature and Photography : Media’s Quest to Decipher the
Mystery of the Everyday

J 2024

Literature and Photography : Media’s Quest to Decipher the Mystery of the Everyday

BUBENÍČEK, Petr a Petr VOKŘÍNEK

Základní údaje

Originální název

Literature and Photography : Media’s Quest to Decipher the Mystery of the Everyday

Autoři

BUBENÍČEK, Petr a Petr VOKŘÍNEK

Vydání

Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, University Babes-Bolyai, 2024, 2457-8827

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

60204 General literature studies

Stát vydavatele

Rumunsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 0.300

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/24:00138303

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

Literature; Photography; Modernity; Existentialism; Everyday Life; Intermediality; Miroslav Hák; Jiří Kolář

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 4. 4. 2025 14:11, Mgr. Pavla Martinková

Anotace

V originále

This article examines the intersection of literature and photography, focusing on their ability to capture everyday life. It explores the evolution of photography in 1930s and 1940s Czech culture, a period marked by aesthetic debates about its legitimacy as art. By analysing the works of Miroslav Hák and Jiří Kolář, the article highlights a paradigm shift from traditional "great art" to an appreciation of the mundane. The fascination with the banal, which was transformed into art through various, most often surrealist, methods, had already manifested itself in Czech culture. Still, it was not until the establishment of Art Group 42 that the every day and the mundane were used to express existentialist reflections. Hák and Kolář introduced into Czech culture a new type of sensibility for reality in that they did not hide reality or dull its edges through lyricism. For them, it was more important to recognise just what kind of world we live in. Thus, the stimulus for their poetic creations was not necessarily artistic in nature, but ontological: Who are we, where do we live, and how are we supposed to grasp and understand these facts?

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1406/2023, interní kód MU

Název: Výzkum literatury a kultury v komparativní a intermediální perspektivě

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Výzkum literatury a kultury v komparativní a intermediální perspektivě

Citovat

BUBENÍČEK, Petr a Petr VOKŘÍNEK. Literature and Photography : Media’s Quest to Decipher the Mystery of the Everyday. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory. University Babes-Bolyai, 2024, roč. 10, č. 2, s. 185-205. ISSN 2457-8827. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2024.18.09.

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BUBENÍČEK, Petr a Petr VOKŘÍNEK. Literature and Photography : Media’s Quest to Decipher the Mystery of the Everyday. \textit{Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory}. University Babes-Bolyai, 2024, roč.~10, č.~2, s.~185-205. ISSN~2457-8827. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2024.18.09.

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