Josef Váchal: the Magic of Seeking

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Josef Váchal: the Magic of Seeking

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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

Název v anglickém jazyce

Josef Váchal: the Magic of Seeking

Popis výsledku anglicky

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

Druh

B - Odborná kniha

CEP obor

AL - Umění, architektura, kulturní dědictví

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2014

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

ISBN

978-80-7432-506-9

Počet stran knihy

304

Název nakladatele

Nakladatelství Paseka

Místo vydání

Praha

Kód UT WoS knihy

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