The English Version of the catalogue "A Royal Marriage"
This publication, printed in both English and Czech version is the catalogue for the exhibition of the same title. The exhibition took place in the Stone Bell House on Old Town Square in Prague 2010–2011 coinciding with the 700th anniversary of the ascent of John of Luxembourg to the Bohemian… more
Rodin's Material Practices: Persona, Transmission, and Effect
Rodin's touch grew to be infamous, infecting each of the sculptures he created and becoming the metaphor for his famously eroticized persona. David Getsy examines – in his lecture held on 29 June 2011 at 3.30 p.m. in the Institute of Art History, Husova 4, Prague 1, room 117 – Rodin's material… more
Attached file: Getsy_for web.pdf
Attached file: Getsy bio for Czech Institute.pdf
Performing the East: Case-studies of Performance Art in Russia, Latvia and Poland since 1980
On 22 June 2011 Amy Bryzgel from the University of Aberdeen explains – in her lecture held at 3.30 p.m. in the Institute of Art History, Husova 4, Prague 1, room 117 – how different socio-political circumstances influenced performance art in Eastern Europe. In Western Europe and North America,… more
Attached file: 20110622_Bryzgel.pdf
Alchemy and Rudolf II. Searching for the secrets of nature in Central Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries
The publication, consisting of more than 700 pages, and edited by Ivo Purš from the Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and Vladimír Karpenko from the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, is the outcome of a project supported by the former Grant Agency… more
Attached file: anotace_Purs_Alchymie.pdf
Study visit "Kateřina Dušková Memorial Fellowship"
Studia Rudolphina: the Research Center for Visual Arts and Culture in the Age of Rudolf II offers a study visit in memory of Kateřina Dušková, a young colleague who died tragically at the very beginning of her academic career. This study visit at the Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of… more