Gábor Dobó: Reading proletarian avant-garde periodicals

📚 Join us for an enlightening lecture in the Collegium historiae artium series!

Speaker: Gábor Dobó (Kassák Foundation / Kassák Museum–Petőfi Literary Museum–MNMKK)
Topic: Reading Proletarian Avant-Garde Periodicals
Location: Ústav dějin umění AV ČR, Husova 4, Praha 1
Available Online: Yes, via Zoom!

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🎤 This lecture will delve into the disparate reading practices observed across social classes, particularly in the early twentieth century. It examines how working-class reading techniques differed from those of the higher classes due to factors like accessibility and cultural capital.

🔥 Discover how avant-garde artists, often linked to the various branches of workers’ movements in the successor states of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, initiated periodicals that transformed the landscape of reading.

✨ Explore the fusion of traditional working-class reading habits with avant-garde print culture that fostered a unique workers’ movement counter-culture in East-Central Europe during the interwar period.

🔍 The talk will analyze the interplay of avant-garde techniques and collective interpretative methods, featuring examples such as speaking choirs and “living journals,” where non-professional performers actively engage in debate through embodied journalism.

💡 A special focus will be placed on the visual aspects of readable materials—from typography to images. Don't miss this opportunity to enrich your understanding of art and literature within historical contexts.

Address: Husova 352/4, 110 00 Praha, Česko
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