Eugen Wiškovský in the Context of Czech Avant-Garde Photography

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Eugen Wiškovský in the Context of Czech Avant-Garde Photography
Original language description
The study about important, but internationally still less known Czech avant-garde photographer Eugen Wiškovský (1888-1964) is a part of a report from international symposium of top European historians of photography. The symposium was organized as a part of international festival of photography PhotoEspaňa in May 2017 at the main building of laCaixa Foundation in Madrid. The oeuvre of the leading Czech avant-garde photographer Eugen Wiškovský is not large in size or range of topics, yet it is great owing to its originality, depth of ideas, and mastery of form. In his early works, from the late 1920s and early 1930s, in the style of New Objectivity, Wiškovský sought artistically effective forms in apparently nonaesthetic objects. By the use of crops, changing scale, and inventive lighting, he freed them from secondary aspects, allowing the elementary lines of these forms to stand out. He often emphasized potential metaphorical meanings as well. In his dynamic diagonal compositions, Wiškovský was among the most radical practioners of Czech Constructivist photography. Similarly, his landscape work is highly individual, sometimes employing form analogies to accentuate visual symbols. Important are also his texts from the theory of photography.
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
An Unexpected Mosaic. Unique Aspects of European Photography
ISBN
9788085739732
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Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
16-29
Publisher name
La Fabrica, Madrid / Central European House of Photography / FOTOFO, Bratislava
Place of publication
Madrid, Bratislava
Event location
Madrid, Caixa Forum
Event date
Jun 10, 2017
Type of event by nationality
EUR - Evropská akce
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