Research Catalog

Title

Czech cubism 1909-1925 : art, architecture, design / edited by Jiří Švestka and Tomáš Vlček ; with Pavel Liška ; with articles by Jaroslav Anděl ... [et al.] ; [translators, Derek Paton ... [et al.]].

Publication

[Prague] : i3 CZ : Modernista, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Švestka, Jiří.
• Vlček, Tomáš.
• Liška, Pavel.
• Anděl, Jaroslav.
• Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen.

Description

455 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., map, plans, ports; 31 cm.

Uniform Title

Český kubismus. English.

Subjects

• Cubism > Czech Republic > Exhibitions
• Architects > Czech Republic > Biography
• Cubism (Architecture) > Czech Republic > Exhibitions
• Art, Czech > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Artists > Czech Republic > Biography
• Design > Czech Republic > History > 20th century > Exhibitions

Note

• Translation of: Český kubismus.
• Catalogue of exhibition held at the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen in Düsseldorf, Sept. 28-Nov. 20, 1991.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 432-441) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword to the new edition -- Cubism and Cubisms -- Czech Cubism in the European context / Edward F. Fry -- Czech Cubism: the dilemma of the nascent Central-European avant-garde / Jiří Švestka -- Czech Cubism / Tomás Vlček -- Cubism and style / Pavel Liška -- Metaphysical meatloaf? the Expressionist response to Cubism / Stephan von Wiese -- Cubism, science, philosophy : correlations and inspiration / Marie Bayerová and Tomáš Vlček -- Linkages and contexts -- Czech Cubism : an international overview / Miroslav Lamač -- Vincenc Kramář and Cubism / Vojtěch Lahoda -- Excursus : Ernst Ludwig Kirchner writes to Vincenc Kramář -- Excursus : Emil Filla and Herwarth Walden / Vojtěch Lahoda -- Important Prague exhibitions, 1911-22 / Pavel Liška -- Vienna, Prague, and Berlin, about 1914 / Vladimír Šlapeta -- Prague and Vienna / Paul Kruntorad -- Portrait of the young architect in the year 1913 / Milena B. Lamarová -- Artists and works -- Cubist theories of Czech painters / Vojtěch Lahoda -- Bohumil Kubišta / Karel Srp -- Emil Filla / Vojtěch Lahoda -- Antonín Procházka / Vojtěch Lahoda -- Excursus : Antonín Procházka's architecture and furniture designs / Vojtěch Lahoda -- Excursus : Czech Cubism and Italian Futurism / Pavel Liška -- Josef Črapek / Karel Srp -- Vincenc Beneš / Vojtěch Lahoda -- Václav Špála / Karel Srp -- Otakar Kubín / Vojtěch Lahoda -- Jan Zrzavý / Karel Srp -- Gutfreund's theory of Cubist sculpture / Tomáš Vlček -- Otto Gutfreund / Tomáš Vlček -- Cubist theories of architecture / Rostislav Švácha -- Pavel Janák / Rostislav Švácha -- Excursus : the design competition for the Pardubice Crematorium, 1919 / Rostislav Švácha -- Josef Gočár / Rostislav Švácha -- Josef Chochol / Rostislav Švácha -- Vlastislav Hofman / Rostislav Švácha -- Bedřich Feuerstein / Zdeněk Lukeš -- Between Art Nouveau and Cubism / Zdeněk Lukes -- Emil Králíček / Zdeněk Lukes -- The Cubist intermezzo in architecture / Zdeněk Lukes -- Excursus : the influence of Czech Cubism on Slovak architecture / Ladislav Foltyn -- Czech Cubist furniture / Olga Herbenová -- Artěl, the PUD, and the SČSD / Jana Horneková -- Exkurz : Czech Cubist companies / Vojtěch Lahoda -- Excursus : Artěl and Vienna / Waltraud Neuwirth -- The book and the poster in the Cubist period / Jan Rous -- Forms and meanings -- The crystal / Karel Srp -- The edge / Karel Srp and Tomáš Vlček -- The creation of a new figure in art / Vojtěch Lahoda -- The concept of "object" / Vojtěch Lahoda -- Causelessness / Karel Srp -- Anxiety / Karel Srp and Tomáš Vlček -- Of fortresses and burial mounds / Rostislav Švácha -- Impact and influences -- Symbolist Cubism / Pavel Liška -- Cubism, film and literature : parallels and inspiration / Jaroslav Anděl -- Cubism and music / Oldřich Pukl and Peter Spielman -- Czech Cubism : Encounters and responses / Raymond Guidot -- Czech Cubism in dates -- Appendices -- About the artists -- Art associations and periodicals -- List of exhibited works -- Bibliography -- Index of names and works -- Cubist Prague architecture.

Call Number

*QVZ+ 08-5313

ISBN

• 8023966596
• 9788023966596

OCLC

84698404

Title

Czech cubism 1909-1925 : art, architecture, design / edited by Jiří Švestka and Tomáš Vlček ; with Pavel Liška ; with articles by Jaroslav Anděl ... [et al.] ; [translators, Derek Paton ... [et al.]].

Imprint

[Prague] : i3 CZ : Modernista, c2006.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 432-441) and index.

Added Author

Švestka, Jiří.

Vlček, Tomáš.

Liška, Pavel.

Anděl, Jaroslav.

Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen.

Research Call Number

*QVZ+ 08-5313