Josef Váchal: the Magic of Seeking

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Josef Váchal: the Magic of Seeking

Original language description

Over the last few decades European and American art historical research has broached a number of topics related to occultism. These studies indicate that it is worthwhile to contemplate anew the impulses that occultism brought into art at the turn of the19th and 20th centuries and continues to provide even in the present day. Within the context of modern Czech art we also find one extraordinary and heretofore not fully appreciated creative personality who reflected magic and mysticism with utmost originality in his works: printmaker and painter Josef Váchal (1884-1969). Váchal's artistic works were marginalized for a very long time mainly because they defy simple categorization. Váchal did not participate in his generation's defining quest for a modern form of expression, for his individualism did not allow him to join in any kind of collective efforts. He ironically subverted and blasphemously mocked the values and ideals shared by artistic societies. The affinity of his work with Eu

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

B - Specialist book

CEP classification

AL - Art, architecture, cultural heritage

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

ISBN

978-80-7432-506-9

Number of pages

304

Publisher name

Nakladatelství Paseka

Place of publication

Praha

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