Petr Rezek's Samizdat Edition

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Petr Rezek's Samizdat Edition

Original language description

Czech Art of the 1970s was in a complicated situation due to the "normalization" policy. After the invasion of the Warsaw Pact forces in 1968 to Czechoslovakia, the new political garniture took power. It was a period, that saw a radical turnaround of the gallery operation and intellectual exchange. This involved an ongoing search for alternative presentational formats. One of them was samizdat, which in the Czech art world replaced the role of non-existing magazines and became a source of information about contemporary art and theories from the unofficial art scene and forbidden West. One unique series of samizdat is the edition of 40 notebooks edited by Petr Rezek in 1978. It consists of 40 square-format notebooks with typewritten texts and imprinted black-and-white photographs. Individual samizdat notebooks are devoted to contemporary themes (e.g. Minimal Art, Land Art, Fluxus) or artist (e.g. John Cage, Robert Morris, La Monte Young). Five of the notebooks are dedicated to Milan Knížák and his activities. One can find original versions of Petr Rezek’s texts in some of them as well as many carefully selected translations. Originals of this unique samizdat edition preserved in the archive of the VVP Research Center at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague show the extraordinary orientation of Petr Rezek in the progressive art of the 1970s and his will to share it with the unofficial artistic and intellectual circles. Philosopher, aesthetician and psychologist, Petr Rezek, played a key role on the Czech art scene in the 1970s, he was a close friend to many progressive artists, who were developing conceptual, performative and other alternative approaches in their work. This Pavlína Morganová´s paper at the conference Rezonances I - Non-conformist art under socialism in Central Eastern Europe and its transnational network: parallel structures, communicating channels and nodes, is an attempt to present the nearly internationally unknown, but exceptional figure of Petr Rezek and his role in the development of progressive art trends in Czechoslovakia. It is also a reflection upon the sources of information contemporary artists had during the 1970s. The limited circulation of ideas was one of the features of that time, which, paradoxically, was a time of bold experimentation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

O - Miscellaneous

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60401 - Arts, Art history

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

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