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Prague Modern
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Author : Zdeněk Lukeš
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Prague Modern written by Zdeněk Lukeš and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Prague
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Author : Chad Bryant
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2021-05-04
Prague written by Chad Bryant and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-04 with History categories.
A poignant reflection on alienation and belonging, told through the lives of five remarkable people who struggled against nationalism and intolerance in one of EuropeÕs most stunning cities. What does it mean to belong somewhere? For many of PragueÕs inhabitants, belonging has been linked to the nation, embodied in the capital city. Grandiose medieval buildings and monuments to national heroes boast of a glorious, shared history. Past governments, democratic and Communist, layered the city with architecture that melded politics and nationhood. Not all inhabitants, however, felt included in these efforts to nurture national belonging. Socialists, dissidents, Jews, Germans, and VietnameseÑall have been subject to hatred and political persecution in the city they called home. Chad Bryant tells the stories of five marginalized individuals who, over the last two centuries, forged their own notions of belonging in one of EuropeÕs great cities. An aspiring guidebook writer, a German-speaking newspaperman, a Bolshevik carpenter, an actress of mixed heritage who came of age during the Communist terror, and a Czech-speaking Vietnamese blogger: none of them is famous, but their lives are revealing. They speak to tensions between exclusionary nationalism and on-the-ground diversity. In their struggles against alienation and dislocation, they forged alternative communities in cafes, workplaces, and online. While strolling park paths, joining political marches, or writing about their lives, these outsiders came to embody a city that, on its surface, was built for others. A powerful and creative meditation on place and nation, the individual and community, Prague envisions how cohesion and difference might coexist as it acknowledges a need common to all.
Cosmos And Materiality In Early Modern Prague
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Author : Suzanna Ivanič
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-06-24
Cosmos And Materiality In Early Modern Prague written by Suzanna Ivanič and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-24 with History categories.
Prague in the seventeenth century is known as home to a scintillating imperial court crammed with exotic goods, scientists, and artisans, receiving ambassadors from Persia, and also as a city suffering plagues, riots, and devastating military attacks. But Prague was also the setting for a complex and shifting spiritual world. At the beginning of the century it was a multiconfessional city, but by 1700 it represented one of the most archetypical Catholic cities in Europe. Through a material approach, Cosmos and Materiality pieces together how early modern men and women experienced this transformation on a daily basis. Cosmos and Materiality in Early Modern Prague presents a bold alternative understanding of the history of early modern religion in Central Europe. The history of religion in the early modern period has overwhelmingly been analysed through a confessional lens, but this book shows how Prague's spiritual worlds were embedded in their natural environment and social relations as much if not more than in confessional identity in the seventeenth century. While texts in this period trace emerging discourses around notions of religion, superstition, magic, and what it was to be Catholic or Protestant, a material approach avoids these category mistakes being applied to everyday practice. It is through a rich seam of material evidence in Prague - spoons, glass beakers, and amulets as much as traditional devotional objects like rosaries and garnet encrusted crucifixes - that everyday beliefs, practices, and identities can be recovered.
Prague A Modern Twist
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Author : Jana Zední?ková
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-05
Prague A Modern Twist written by Jana Zední?ková and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05 with categories.
Prague: A Modern Twist is the first in a Loves Art Will Travel series of guidebooks for travelers who love contemporary art and modern design and want to incorporate them into their travel.A contemporary portrait of the City of a Hundred Spires told by a Prague native and including tips from other locals and frequent visitors, the book helps visitors step beyond well known traditional sights and explore the less expected, modern side of Prague. It offers a curated, design-focused edit of the best contemporary art galleries, outdoor art installations and modern architecture, along with great places to stay, eat and shop.The author, Jana Zední?ková, is a passionate traveler and a design minimalist at heart. A contemporary art collector, she is constantly searching for cool art galleries and destinations to explore and shares her other destination tips and recommendations in her blog Loves Art Will Travel (www.lovesartwilltravel.com).
Prague Capital Of The Twentieth Century
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Author : Derek Sayer
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-11-09
Prague Capital Of The Twentieth Century written by Derek Sayer and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-09 with History categories.
The story of modernity told through a cultural history of twentieth-century Prague Setting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the "city of light," Walter Benjamin dubbed Paris "the capital of the nineteenth century." In this eagerly anticipated sequel to his acclaimed Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History, Derek Sayer argues that Prague could well be seen as the capital of the much darker twentieth century. Ranging across twentieth-century Prague's astonishingly vibrant and always surprising human landscape, this richly illustrated cultural history describes how the city has experienced (and suffered) more ways of being modern than perhaps any other metropolis. Located at the crossroads of struggles between democratic, communist, and fascist visions of the modern world, twentieth-century Prague witnessed revolutions and invasions, national liberation and ethnic cleansing, the Holocaust, show trials, and snuffed-out dreams of "socialism with a human face." Yet between the wars, when Prague was the capital of Europe's most easterly parliamentary democracy, it was also a hotbed of artistic and architectural modernism, and a center of surrealism second only to Paris. Focusing on these years, Sayer explores Prague's spectacular modern buildings, monuments, paintings, books, films, operas, exhibitions, and much more. A place where the utopian fantasies of the century repeatedly unraveled, Prague was tailor-made for surrealist André Breton's "black humor," and Sayer discusses the way the city produced unrivaled connoisseurs of grim comedy, from Franz Kafka and Jaroslav Hasek to Milan Kundera and Václav Havel. A masterful and unforgettable account of a city where an idling flaneur could just as easily be a secret policeman, this book vividly shows why Prague can teach us so much about the twentieth century and what made us who we are.
Prague 20th Century Architecture
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Author : Michael Kohout
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 1999-04-22
Prague 20th Century Architecture written by Michael Kohout and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-04-22 with Architecture categories.
This pocket-sized yet comprehensive guidebook to modern architecture in Prague shows its development from the Art Nouveau and beginnings of the Modern Style at the turn of the 20th century, the unique Cubist buildings from the years before World War I, the "National Style" of the newly established Czechoslovak Republic, the functionalist avant-garde of the inter-war period, the most remarkable examples of post-World War II buildings, and the revival of architectural production after 1989. 200 pages cover 220 buildings spanning the period 1900 to 1997. Each entry contains a descriptive text, period photographs, and selected entries are provided with plans. An indispensable companion for discovering the vast architectural heritage of the Czech capital.
Modern Prague Map
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Author : Adam Stech
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-07-06
Modern Prague Map written by Adam Stech and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-06 with categories.
Modern Prague Map includes a map, an introduction to Prague's 20th century architecture by Adam Stěch, original photography by Tomas Souček and details of fifty buildings representing the city's remarkable array of styles: from Cubism and Modernism to Brutalism and Post-Modernism. Perfect for a walking tour or framing, this map measures slightly larger than A2 open, folds to slightly larger than A5 and is protected by a wide band. All of our printed publications are printed by a quality family-run and carbon-neutral press on quality recycled paper. Adam Stěch has been active in the fields of design, architecture, fashion and graphic arts as a theoretician, journalist and curator since 2006. He is a co-founder of Prague-based Okolo Studio, the editor of design magazine Dolce Vita and contributor for several international magazines including Wallpaper, Cool Hunting, Damn, A10, Mark, Frame and much more. He teaches at Scholastika in Prague.
Czech Modern Art 1900 1960
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Author : Národní Galerie. Praha. Sbírka Moderního Umění
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Czech Modern Art 1900 1960 written by Národní Galerie. Praha. Sbírka Moderního Umění and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with categories.
Evening Sale Prague Modern And Contemporary Art
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Author : Adolf Loos Apartment and Gallery
language : cs
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Evening Sale Prague Modern And Contemporary Art written by Adolf Loos Apartment and Gallery and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with categories.
Castle And Cathedral In Modern Prague
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Author : Bruce R. Berglund
language : en
Publisher: Central European University Press
Release Date : 2017-03-01
Castle And Cathedral In Modern Prague written by Bruce R. Berglund and has been published by Central European University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-01 with History categories.
Six million people visit Prague Castle each year. Here is the story of how this ancient citadel was transformed after World War I from a neglected, run-down relic into the seat of power for independent Czechoslovakia?and the symbolic center of democratic postwar Europe. The restoration of Prague Castle was a collaboration of three remarkable figures in twentieth-century east central Europe: Tom ? Masaryk, the philosopher who became Czechoslovakia?s first president; his daughter Alice, a social worker trained in the settlement houses of Chicago who was founding director of the Czechoslovak Red Cross and her father?s trusted confidante; and the architect, Jo?e Ple?nik of Slovenia, who integrated reverence for Classical architecture into distinctly modern designs. Their shared vision saw the Castle not simply as a government building or historic landmark but as the sacred center of the new republic, even the new Europe?a place that would embody a different kind of democratic politics, rooted in the spiritual and the moral. With a biographer?s attention to detail, historian Bruce Berglund presents lively and intimate portraits of these three figures. At the same time, he also places them in the context of politics and culture in interwar Prague and the broader history of religion and secularization in modern Europe. Gracefully written and grounded in a wide array of sources, Castle and Cathedral in Modern Prague is an original and accessible study of how people at the center of Europe, in the early decades of the twentieth century, struggled with questions of morality, faith, loyalty, and skepticism.