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Výtvarná rekonstrukce pravěku a evoluce člověka

The book introduces the reader to the developmental changes in the artistic reconstruction of the prehistoric world, especially the Upper...

Betrug der Allamoda in Prag 1660 / Podvod Allamody v Praze 1660

The comic allegory Betrug der Allamoda from the pen of Viennese-Prague Barnabite preacher Costanza Arzonni was staged twice in 1660 at th...

Czech Secession

In the 1890s in Prague, as in Munich, Vienna and Berlin, the work of young artists developed as a "secession" from traditional artistic s...

Art and Architecture 1890–1914

O sochách a sochařích

In this collection of essays, Petr Wittlich follows the story of modern European sculpture, exploring the significance of its models, the...

Degrees of Separation

In Beyond the Avant Garde, scholars from Czechia, Canada, Germany, and Hungary take a new approach to exploring the work of one of Centra...

Bohumil Kubišta and the European Avant-Garde

Pravěké umění

The book Prehistoric Art: Evolution of Man and Culture addresses the birth of human creativity in the context of the evolution of the hum...

Evoluce člověka a kultury

Bohumil Kubišta a Evropa

This book offers a new evaluation of the work of Bohumil Kubišta which exceeds the traditional format of an art-history monograph. It ana...

Česká secese

In the 1890s, activities of the association of young artists, a result of the „secession” from the traditional art structures, unfolded i...

Art Nouveau Prague

At the turn of the 20th century, Prague underwent a fundamental transformation: once again, it became a prestigious centre for the life o...

Praha středověká

Prague, which began its development together with the Czech state during the reign of the first Přemyslid rulers at the end of the 9th ce...

Renaissance Prague

At the end of the fifteenth century, when the Jagiellons and, later, the first Habsburg rulers sat on the Bohemian throne, the visual sty...

Španělské umění od Altamiry po Picassa

This book offers a concise overview of the artistic culture in the Iberian Peninsula from prehistoric times through the works of the foun...