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a collective of authors, “Vademecum” Modern
Arts in Bohemia and Moravia, 1890-1938 is
a book aiming to facilitate orientation in the complex process of the
modern arts development. In accordance with the historical reality of the
period, it understands the territory of Bohemia and Moravia as a
multinational whole and, in addition to Czech artists, it follows also
work of some important representatives of other nationalities.
“Vademecum” consists of three parts. The first one is an introduction
to the history of arts of that period - a basic overview of modern
visual arts schools, their main protagonists and artistic groups in the
ideological, social and geopolitical context. The second part presents 88
selected artists from the field of painting, sculpture, graphics,
architecture, photography and arts and crafts in a lexicographic form.
Phases that significantly contributed to the modern style formation, i.e.
radically opposed the preceding epochs and offered new solutions with an
ambition to find a new
international applicability, respectively creatively reflected them or
freely interpreted them within purely personal platforms, are highlighted
in their work. That is fully mirrored in the structure of lexicon texts. A
need to ask new questions and find new answers accompanied work of some
artists throughout all their lives, however, for some of them it was
characteristic only in a certain phase of their artistic career. The third
part called “Small Glossary” provides a more detail explanation of
technical terms, structure and focus of artistic groups or important
personalities highlighted in the text by italics.
A particularly important part of “Vademecum” is formed by its
bountiful illustrations. 645 reproductions do not serve only as a
documentary material but primarily allow readers to reach their own
view on the artists’ work. The basic guide for those who would like to
study it in more detail and in a broader context will be the “New
Encyclopaedia of the Czech Visual Arts” (Academia, Prague 1995) and, in
direct relation to the period dealt with by “Vademecum”, the synoptic
“History of the Czech Visual Arts 1890-1938/1-2” (Academia, Prague
1998).
The literature mentioned under individual monographic texts will bring
attention of the interested readers to the most important scholarly
studies dealing with the artists where they can find more bibliographic
references. They are available in public and university libraries or
libraries of regional, district or state galleries and museums. Their
authors include also those who wrote the lexicon profiles for “Vademecum”:
Antonín Dufek, Iva Janáková, Ludmila Kybalová, Milena Lamarová, Pavla
Pečinková, Hana Rousová, Pavel Šopák.
It is a book with an untraditional structure. It was chosen deliberately
with the aim to capture the wide public and arouse interest in visual
arts. Graphic
design: Miroslav Kloss ISBN:
80-86010-63-5, 424 pages, 645 reproductions,
The
book is published under the auspices of Pavel Dostál, The
publication could be published through the good offices The
publisher thanks for a valuable contribution to
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František
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