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Contemporary Art

Jaroslav Malina in Scenography and Painting

Brandesky Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9788024642697, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2019
450 pp., 26x23.4 cm, 125 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Although Czech scenographer and painter Jaroslav Malina (1937-2016) lived in turbulent times, he won international respect for his work. Spanning Malina's entire life – from his early year...

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Cartoon Art

We're Still at War Stories of the 20th Century

ISBN: PB: 9788024637280, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2018
182 pp., 30.5x20.3 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The Communist regimes of Europe collapsed more than a quarter century ago, and the Third Reich fell in World War II. However, today's rising global tide of far-right extremism makes totali...

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History of Art

Restless Figure Expression in Czech Sculpture 1880-1914

Wittlich Petr, Baborovska Sandra

ISBN: HB: 9788024634289, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2017
240 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 200 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! At the end of the nineteenth century, Czech figural sculpture achieved an artistic quality comparable to that of contemporary artworks produced in the main artistic centers of Europe, incl...

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Photography

Pavel Dias, Photographs 1956-2015

Havel Jan, Lab Filip

ISBN: PB: 9788024630175, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, April 2016
258 pp., 29.2x19 cm, 180 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Pavel Dias's work forms one of the touchstones of Czech journalistic and documentary photography. Working at a time when the stiffness of form and content called for by Soviet ideology was...

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History of Art

Europe

Prague in the Reign of Rudolph II Mannerist Art and Architecture in the Imperial Capital, 1583-1612

Fucikova Eliska

ISBN: PB: 9788024622637, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2015
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 106 colour plates, 25 halftones, 6 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Prague in the Reign of Rudolph II" takes readers back to the days of the Habsburg Emperor Rudolph II (1576-1611) when Prague became the metropolis of the Holy Roman Empire, and when the i...

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History of Art

Genesis of Creativity and the Origin of the Human Mind

Putova Barbora, Soukup Vaclav

ISBN: HB: 9788024626772, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2015
350 pp., 23.3x17 cm, 160 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! What is it about human beings that makes us creative, able to imagine and enact new possibilities for life and new solutions to problems in a way that no other animal can? The authors incl...

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History of Art

Master of the Trebon Altarpiece

Royt Jan

ISBN: HB: 9788024622613, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2015
330 pp., 28.4x23.3 cm, 86 colour plates, 12 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The Master of the Trebon Altarpiece was a painter active in Prague in the fourteenth century and one of the most important gothic artists of the international style. He is named for his mo...

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Contemporary Art

Jan Koblasa Grafika Prints

Neslehova Mahulena

ISBN: PB: 9788024625218, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2014
328 pp., 28.4x23.3 cm, Illustrated in colour throughout

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! A key personality in Czech modern art, Jan Koblasa works in diverse media, including sculpture, painting, drawing, and printmaking, and he also makes costumes for the stage and screen, wri...

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Contemporary Art

Culture Studies

Czech Action Art Happenings, Actions, Events, Land Art, Body Art and Performance Art Behind the Iron Curtain

Morganova Pavlina

ISBN: PB: 9788024623177, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, June 2014
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 200 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Czech action art – a medium similar to performance art that does not require an audience – emerged out of the political and social turmoil of the 1960s. This movement has received little c...

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Decorative Arts

Catalogue of the Late Roman, Byzantine and Barbaric Coins in the Charles University Collection (364-1092 A.D.)

Gambacorta Federico

ISBN: PB: 9788024622408, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2014
96 pp., 30.4x20.3 cm, 243 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The collection of ancient coins at Charles University has existed in its present state since 1945. That year Greek, Roman, and other ancient coins were entrusted to the care of the Seminar...

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