CZECH MODERNISM 1900-1945
Jaroslav Andel, Anne Wilkes Tucker, Alison De Lima Greene, Ralph McKay, Willis Hartshorn (exhibition curators)
Jaroslav Andel, Anne Wilkes Tucker, Alison De Lima Greene, Ralph McKay, Willis Hartshorn (exhibition curators): CZECH MODERNISM 1900-1945. Boston: Bullfinch, in conjunction with the Houston Museum 0f Fine Arts, 1989 . First edition. A Fine Softcover book in stiff, printed wrappers. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.
9 x 11.5 softcover book with 264 pages and 31 Plates in color, 56 duotone and 56 halftones. Excellent reference work on Czech photography, films, painting and design. Texts include essays by Jaroslav Andel, Antonin Dufek, Alsion de Lima Greene, Jiri Kotalik and others. Book produced in conjunction with a travelling exhibit in 1990: the catalog of this historic exhibition is profusely illustrated ( often with rare images) and contains significant essays on Czech photography, film, cubism, and the relationship of the avant-garde & commercial art, etc.
Contents:
- the czechoslovak film archive
- in searchof redemption: visions of beginnings and end
- czech modernism: 1900-1920
- czech cubism: points of departure and resolution
- from l;yrical metaphors to symbols of fate: czech surrealism of the 1930s
- modernism, the avant-garde and photography
- situation of czech modern photography
- imaginative photography
- art/commerce and the avant-garde
- artists as filmmakers
- the theatreand films of Jiri Voskovec and jan Werich
- on the sunny side of film
- chronologies
Contains work by the following artists and photographers: Karel Anton, Ladislav Berka, Josef Capek, Frantisek Drtikol, Emil Filla, Karel Hajek, Miroslav Hak, Karel Hasler, Jan Kucera, Alfons Mucha, Ada Novak, Karel Plicka, Josef Sudek, Karel tiege, Max Urban, Josef Vachal, and many others.
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