Otevřené dílo. Forma a neurčenost v současných poetikách
Published by Argo and translated into Czech by Zora Obstová, is one of the best known works by the Italian semiotician, philosopher and writer Umberto Eco: “The Open Work. Form and indeterminacy in contemporary poetics”. The literary work, which was one of the first international successes of the Italian intellectual, known worldwide, is a critical written work that was published in part under the title “The Informal as an open work”, in the magazine “Il Verri” in 1961. The notion of “Open work “, developed by Eco, intends to interpret many artistic and literary trends of the years in which the essay was conceived and published as a sort of real “scientific” theory. The 1962 essay, which achieved considerable international resonance, also to the author’s surprise, analyzes such phenomena as serial music, experimental literature, informal painting, kinetic art, etc. and presents a vision of contemporary art as the basis for a scientific definition of reality.
Umberto Eco,
Otevřené dílo. Forma a neurčenost v současných poetikách,
Argo: Prague 2015,
300 pp.