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Author : Michael Huig
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,40 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Around 1900 a unique decorative style of art developed in Prague which was influenced both by Parisian Art Nouveau and the Viennese Secession.
Author : Jan Kaplan
Publisher :
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 40,44 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Prague (Czech Republic)
ISBN : 9788086010212
Author : Cathleen M. Giustino
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 19,45 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN :
Based upon a rich array of rare documents, this book examines the local social and ethnic interest-group struggles that fueled the large-scale destruction and reconstruction of the city's former Jewish ghetto in 1887.
Author : Derek Sayer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 39,32 MB
Release : 2015-01-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0691166315
The story of modernity told through a cultural history of twentieth-century Prague Setting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the "city of light," Walter Benjamin dubbed Paris "the capital of the nineteenth century." In this eagerly anticipated sequel to his acclaimed Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History, Derek Sayer argues that Prague could well be seen as the capital of the much darker twentieth century. Ranging across twentieth-century Prague's astonishingly vibrant and always surprising human landscape, this richly illustrated cultural history describes how the city has experienced (and suffered) more ways of being modern than perhaps any other metropolis. Located at the crossroads of struggles between democratic, communist, and fascist visions of the modern world, twentieth-century Prague witnessed revolutions and invasions, national liberation and ethnic cleansing, the Holocaust, show trials, and snuffed-out dreams of "socialism with a human face." Yet between the wars, when Prague was the capital of Europe's most easterly parliamentary democracy, it was also a hotbed of artistic and architectural modernism, and a center of surrealism second only to Paris. Focusing on these years, Sayer explores Prague's spectacular modern buildings, monuments, paintings, books, films, operas, exhibitions, and much more. A place where the utopian fantasies of the century repeatedly unraveled, Prague was tailor-made for surrealist André Breton's "black humor," and Sayer discusses the way the city produced unrivaled connoisseurs of grim comedy, from Franz Kafka and Jaroslav Hasek to Milan Kundera and Václav Havel. A masterful and unforgettable account of a city where an idling flaneur could just as easily be a secret policeman, this book vividly shows why Prague can teach us so much about the twentieth century and what made us who we are.
Author : Eric Dluhosch
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 17,39 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 0262041707
"When the Communists took over Czechoslovakia in 1948. Teige was first hailed as a progressive, then denounced for not toeing the party line - even though he was never a card-carrying member of the Communist Party. He died a broken man, forbidden to speak out or to publish. Since the recovery of his work after the "velvet revolution" of 1989, his legacy has been revived not only in Prague but also in Western Europe and the United States."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Jiří Fronek
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,88 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Art nouveau
ISBN : 9788074670541
Vital Art Nouveau 1900 presents a selection of the most outstanding works of Czech and European Art Nouveau style from the collection of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, all of which are on permanent display at the Prague Municipal House. This volume establishes the Art Nouveau arts and crafts as part of the forward-looking trends and emancipation efforts that evolved in the late nineteenth century; as a reformist art movement, Art Nouveau strove to achieve a unity between art and life, aspiring to overcome the Romantic duality of beauty versus reality, or "the truth of life." These rebellious artists not only forced a break with the rigidity of existing art practices, but also regenerated forms of artistic expression that many considered to be stagnant. Infused with the popular aesthetic theories of the times, such as Vitalism and Spiritism, the Art Nouveau aesthetic answered and responded to the new zest for life that swept nineteenth-century society as a whole. Masterpieces of decorative art exhibited at the famous Paris World's Fair of 1900 are reproduced in this volume in color, alongside a variety of works ranging from paintings, poster art, magazines and ceramic works to jewelry, glassware and furniture.
Author : Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Publisher : Bulfinch Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 32,21 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780821217634
Documentation of the Czech contribution to European modernism, bringing together essays by leading scholars, and exploring such art forms as painting, sculpture, writing, photography and film.
Author : T. Ort
Publisher : Springer
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 19,12 MB
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1137077395
In most contemporary historical writing the picture of modern life in Habsburg Central Europe is a gloomy story of the failure of rationalism and the rise of protofascist movements. This book tells a different story, focusing on the Czech writers and artists distinguished by their optimistic view of the world in the years before WWI.
Author : Charles Bellman (Firm)
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 23,78 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Prague (Czech Republic)
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Author : Gary B. Cohen
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 32,40 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1557534047
The German-speaking inhabitants of the Bohemian capital developed a group identification and defined themselves as a minority as they dealt with growing Czech political and economic strength in the city and with their own sharp numerical decline: in the 1910 census only seven percent of the metropolitan population claimed that they spoke primarily German. The study uses census returns, extensive police and bureaucratic records, newspaper accounts, and memoirs on local social and political life to show how the German minority and the Czech majority developed demographically and economically in relation to each other and created separate social and political lives for their group members. The study carefully traces the roles of occupation, class, religion, and political ideology in the formation of German group loyalties and social solidarities.