Research Catalog

Title

Čas, čas, čas... v umění 19. století / editorka: Eva Bendová ; autoři textů: Eva Bendová,Vít Vlnas.

Publication

Plzeň : Západočeská galerie v Plzni, 2018.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bendová, Eva, 1976-
• Vlnas, Vít
• Západočeská galerie v Plzni, host institution, publisher.

Description

63 pages : chiefly color illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

This exhibition was created in connection with the interdisciplinary symposium traditionally held in Pilsen. The title for the 38th year is: Understanding the Second; Time in 19th Century Culture. The exhibition displays important chapters in the extensive and fundamental problem of human perception and depiction that radically changed during the 19th century. While at the turn of the century time was still perceived cyclically through the course of natural cycles, the division of the liturgical year, and the work cycle. By the end of the century, time was being observed as a linear course, the modernist development of "from beginning to end" towards "better and more perfect". Many themes, such as the depiction of the cycles of day and night, persist, although they change stylistically through the centuries. Issues of time perception and visualization were emerging anew as a result of industrialization and shifts in social conditions. For example, there was an emphasis on everyday life, capturing the momentary actions and experiences of a given situation, bringing with it new sensuality in imaging and artistic opportunities, such as the promotion of the sketch to the status of definitive artwork. Without claiming to exhaust the subject, the exhibition studies variations in the imagery of allegory and the cyclic perception of time in monumental Czech paintings, as well as the imagery of abstract time on a symbolic level, often referring to the ending of human life and death itself (Chronos, Sphinx). The exhibition also investigates the stylistic transition of Czech art during the century in question, as well as the transition of the human, the individual, through the irrefutable cycle of youth, maturation, old age, and ultimately death. The final part of the exhibition emphasizes the depiction of the moment, the perception of the second, along with everyday acts such as the observation of the weather and atmospheric transitions in the landscape, and always in sketch and composition - snapshots with the ability to "capture" a second in time.

Subjects

• Art, Czech
• Time in art
• Art, Czech > 19th century > Exhibitions
• Time in art > Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs
• 1800-1899

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Catalogue of an exhibition held at Západočeská galerie v Plzni, 23 February through 9 May 2018.
• Limited edition of 300 copies.

Language (note)

• In Czech; summary in English.

Contents

Mir eine Weile! Člověk a čas v referencích, metaforách a alegoriích / Vít Vlnas -- Okamžik, nebo trvání? V zrcadle české krajinnomalby 19. století / Eva Bendová.

Call Number

ReCAP 19-15120

ISBN

• 9788088027256
• 808802725X

OCLC

1039617552

Title

Čas, čas, čas... v umění 19. století / editorka: Eva Bendová ; autoři textů: Eva Bendová,Vít Vlnas.

Publisher

Plzeň : Západočeská galerie v Plzni, 2018.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Language

In Czech; summary in English.

Chronological Term

1800-1899

Added Author

Bendová, Eva, 1976- author, editor.

Vlnas, Vít, author.

Západočeská galerie v Plzni, host institution, publisher.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 19-15120