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The concept of cruelty as an artistic principle touches on the problem of violence, bodily presence and physical expression in art. By examining this aspect in the art and texts of four important figures of Western moder...

The material study is focused on the work of the now almost forgotten prose writer and playwright D. P. Syarov. He made his debut as a novelist, but already during his studies in Switzerland he began to write travelogues...

The study analyzes the manner in which the State Jewish Museum in Prague maintained memory of the Shoah from 1945–1989 through exhibitions, publications and occasional speeches. It reflects upon the fact that the post-...

This text focuses on the role of the brushstroke in Vincent van Gogh’s work. Van Gogh’s brushstroke technique draws on the tradition of European painting, spanning from Titian to Delacroix and the Impressionists, a t...

In her short stories, Karen Blixen often uses fine art as a model for describing characters or landscapes. When analyzing these references, researchers face a basic problem in many cases: how can one prove that the autho...

At the end of 1947, a small book was published, taking stock of the controversial reception of the exhibition of national artists of the Soviet Union, which in May of that year introduced Soviet socialist realism to Czec...

The cycle Parables of the Gospel by Růžena Zátková was considered missing. Still, it appeared in scholarly literature, and in the 1990s even at an exhibition, but always as the work of the much more famous painter Na...

The paper follows how and in what context the development of Czech modern art was characterized by two leading theorizing artists: painters Miloš Jiránek and Emil Filla. Special attention is paid to their conception of...