Czech art history and Marxism [PDF]
Czech art history in the 20th century has been strongly informed by the tradition of the Vienna School. After the Communist takeover of power in 1948, Marxism – or more precisely Marxism-Leninism – became a compulsory philosophical approach.
Milena Bartlová
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Discussion about Matthew Rampley, ‘Networks, horizons, centres and hierarchies: on the challenges of writing on modernism in Central Europe’, special issue of Umění: Journal of The Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, 69:2, 2021. [PDF]
This journal is normally only available on subscription but the editor has kindly agreed to allow the publication of this issue for readers of Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius’s review.
Umění
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1968: In Search of “Socialism with Human Face” in Czech Art History
The five or eight years leading up to the failed “Prague Spring” represent the most important period of Czech humanities tradition during the Communist Party dictatorship.
Milena Bartlová
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Nationalising Czech Modernism. Review of: Marta Filipová, Modernity, History, and Politics in Czech Art, Series: Routledge Research in Art and Politics, New York: Routledge, 2019 [PDF]
This monograph investigates Czech modernism from the late nineteenth century to 1938. Rather than viewing modernism as a rejection of nationalism, art historian Marta Filipová argues that many Czech artists and art critics sought ways to ‘nationalise ...
Cynthia Paces
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Kunstwollen: The Transfer and Precarious Survival of an Artistic-Theoretical Concept in Czech Art History of the 20th Century [PDF]
The influential art-historical concept of Kunstwollen or ‘will-to-art’, connected first with the socalled Vienna School of Art History, then transferred into Czech art history and therein surviving to this day, was introduced in three art-historical ...
Tomáš Murár
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Continuity and discontinuity in the Czech legacy of the Vienna School of Art History [PDF]
This article considers the development of Czech art history from the late nineteenth century to the present. It argues that while Czech art historians were anxious to establish a distinctive art historical voice in Europe, they were led a symbiotic ...
Milena Bartlová
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Agency, affect and intention in art history: some observations [PDF]
Recent years have seen a notable growth of interest in the operations of affect and agency in art. Works of art are said to have agency, primarily through their impact on the affectivity of the spectator.
Matthew Rampley
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Humidity change rate control in intermittently heated historic buildings [PDF]
Many massive historic buildings such as stone churches are intermittently heated. The predominant heating strategy is to heat the building with as high heating power as possible to achieve a fast and energy efficient heat-up process.
Wessberg Magnus +2 more
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Prezentace německo-českého umění ve stálých expozicích Národní galerie v Praze
The aim of this article is to show how the National Gallery presented the German–Czech artists and in which way it interpreted them in its presentation of national modern art.
Barbora Pavliš Ficková
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Enlarged Details and Close-up Views: Art Reproduction in 1930s Czechoslovakia
Each photograph captures an artwork within a particular frame of space and time, providing a perspective that is contingent and dependent on the era the photograph was made in (Bergstein 1992).
Hana Buddeus
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