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Karel Teige and the Liquidation of Aura
 Vítů, Viktorie ; Rakušanová, Marie (advisor) ; Konečný, Lubomír (referee)
In my thesis I apply Walter Benjamin's thought as interpretative framework to Karel Teige's texts and I focus on notions of aura and autonomy. In the first chapter I initiate my exposition with reading Benjamin's notion of aura as spatiotemporal continuity of an artwork, its uniqueness if it is valued by society. I refuse that Benjamin rejects the autonomy of an artwork as opposite to its tendentiousness and political commitment. Benjamin's proclamation of the politicization of art from the conclusion of The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility is supposed to be read as the literarization of the conditions of living from his text Autor as Producer. In conclusion is admitted that this demand can be read as a rejection of autonomy of art as it is concieved in Peter Bürger's Theory of the Avant-Garde. In the second chapter I handle Teige's examination of phenomena which can be described by Benjamin's terminology as liquidation of aura. It is claim that Tegie as well as Benjamin rejects to award an original with a special status. Attention is payed to Teige's emphasis on democratization of artwork reception and to his practical artistic activity in nonauratistic media: to image poems and typography. In the third chapter is discussed what was Teige's attitude to autonomy of...
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