Articles

The sixth issue of Umění/Art of the last year came out. Among the articles it contains, we would like to draw your attention to the article about the true price of the crown of thorns in Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, a story of a unique lacquer casket from the formerly property of Empress Maria Theresa or the play 'Il Pazzo' (1920) by a prominent artist, the author of striking experimental works, Růžena Zátková, who lived in Rome since 1910. There she met a number of modern artists, especially Italian Futurists.

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Bringing together more than a hundred of the artist’s works and displaying the full range of his activities, the exhibition, ably curated by Thomas Fusenig (collaborators in Prague were Eliška Fučíková and director of the Intitute of Art History of ASCI Lubomír Konečný), may have been Hans von Aachen’s unique moment in the sun, a once-in-a-lifetime summation of the versatility of a major master of his time. Von Aachen’s itinerant career made his art itself mobile. The Prague venue of this exhibition juxtaposed two versions of the Carrying of the Cross, both from around 1587, one a demonstration of gestural freedom and Venetian colourism, the other – on copper, finishing work begun by Christoph Schwarz – an early essay in controlled ‘fine painting’ (Dutch fijnschilderie).

The most recent issue of the Studia Rudolfina Bulletin has just been published. It includes articles devoted to the plans by Elias Holl in the collections of Rudolf II, the possibility that the church of SS. Peter and Paul in Kralovice is the work of Bonifaz Wohlmut, and the church of St. James in Jičín in the context of Roman architecture around 1600. The painting of Mary Magdalene by Josef Heintz the Elder has recently been restored, leading to a revision of views held up till now.

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The International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art (RIHA) currently associates nearly thirty institutions that deal with academic research and documentation in the field of art history. It was founded in Paris in 1998, and one of its founding members was the Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), presents New Formations: Czech Avant-Garde Art and Modern Glass from the Roy and Mary Cullen Collection November 6, 2011-February 5, 2012, shedding light on a still under-known chapter of 20th-century art. The exhibition features more than 150 Czech avant-garde works amassed by Houston philanthropists Roy and Mary Cullen, including outstanding examples from the flowering of Czech Surrealism; rare artists‘ books and avant-garde periodicals; and exquisitely molded and blown modern glass. The exhibition is curated by by Karel Srp of the Prague Municipal Gallery, Lenka Bydžovská of the Institute of History of Art of Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and Jan Mergl of the West Bohemian Museum in Pilsen.

A leading Spanish researcher in the field of mediaeval manuscripts, Josefina Planas, will deliver a lecture in French on the sumptuous manuscript commissioned by the King of Aragon, Martin I, for the Cistercian monastery of Our Lady in Poblet at the end of the 14th century. The lecture will take place in the Institute of Art Histora ASCR, Husova 4, Prague at 3.30 pm.

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The fifth issue of Umění/Art for this year has just been published. Among the articles it contains, we would like to draw your attention to Martin Mádl’s contribution on “Giuseppe Bragalli and Bolognese Ceiling Painting in the Czech Lands in the 17th Century”. Iconographic research is represented by Petra Polláková’s study “The Case of Beatrice Cenci: From Guido Reni to David Lynch”. In it, the author investigates the tradition of a Baroque painting that became part of the popular culture of the 20th century. The architecture historian Jindřich Vybíral examines Leopold Bauer’s work for the owner of the Johann Lötz Witwe Glassworks. His article is supplemented by a selection from their correspondence from the years 1903–1906 from the Albertina in Vienna.

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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 throne and his marriage to Bohemian Princess Elisabeth Premyslid. c

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 practices as the site of these myths, demonstrating how his persona was disseminated through his ways of making sculptural objects.  Drawing on his new book Rodin: Sex and the Making of Modern Sculpture, Getsy extends his discussion to address Rodin's often-overlooked marble sculptures of the twentieth century as bearing unexpected and contradictory traces of the legendary Rodin Touch.

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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, performance art developed as a genre in its own right in the 1960s and 1970s, as a way for artists to escape the commercialised space of the art gallery and create a work of art that existed in time and space, which could not be bought or sold.

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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 of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in the years 2007-2009. In addition to the editors, a number of Czech and international specialists on Rudolfine issues contributed to the publication (Jarmila Hausenblasová, William Eamon, René Zandbergen, Rafał T. Prinke, Hiro Hirai, Alena Richterová, Jakub Hlaváček, Josef Smolka, Václav Bůžek, John A. Norris, and Pavel Drábek).

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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 the Czech Republic, is financed on the basis of donations by sponsors, and is intended for students or young researchers from both the Czech Republic and other countries whose field of interest is related to art-historical issues from the time of Rudolf II.

For two years now, the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) has been organising the project Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C- MAP) in a Global Age: A Program for Research at the Museum of Modern Art, which aims at disseminating knowledge and discussion of modern and contemporary art beyond the regions that are most heavily represented in the MoMA collections (Western Europe, North America, and Latin America). The consultants and moderators for the project are Prof. Homi Bhabha (Harvard University) and Prof. Mieke Bal (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences). The main geographical areas targeted by the project are Brazil, Central and Eastern Europe, and Japan.

On 23 March 2011 Gauvin Bailey, Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art from the University of Aberdeen explains why is the architecture and decor of the Southern Cone of South America distinct from the rest of the continent: it showcases the Rococo style, in contrast to the heavy Baroques of the rest of Latin America. Rococo’s presence in the region can be credited almost exclusively to the influx of Central European architects and designers into the region. Trained in the Rococo style artists from Bohemia to Swabia brought a distinctly Germanic flavor to the churches of present-day Chile, Paraguay, and Argentina. Germanic influence was also crucial in Brazil, where it arrived second-hand thanks to an enthusiasm for Germanic Baroque in Lisbon, but also first-hand when Germanic designers established themselves in the Amazon missions. But by far the greatest number of German-speaking architects and artists to work in one place—fifty at a time in the 1740s—were active in Chile.

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On 9 March 2010 professor Carl Goldstein from the University of North Carolina gives a lecture in the Institute of Art History, Husova 4, Prague. The topic is the body in traditional Western art, which is an ideal body. The focus on the physical body in recent and contemporary art therefore represents a fundamental re-oreintation of traditional values, the one as the other to be examined and contextualized.

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The colloquium "The Royal Court and the City" will take place towards the end of the exhibition "A Royal Marriage - Elisabeth Premyslid and John of Luxembourg 1310", held in Prague at the Stone Bell House on the Old Town Square from 4 November 2010 to 6 February 2011. The colloquium, organised by the Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, will take place in the Academic Conference Center, Husova 4, Prague 1 with the support of the Polish Institute in Prague, the City Gallery Prague, and the embassies of Luxembourg, Poland, Spain, and France.

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In recent years, interest in national photographic heritage, both institutional and public, has been a burgeoning phenomenon, and with it an awareness that much remains to be discovered.

Adolf Hoffmeister (1902–1973) became one of the most remarkable Czech artists of the twentieth century thanks to his prolific activities. The publication includes, for the first time ever, a comprehensive list of all the objects from Hoffmeister’s collection of non-European ethnic art, bringing together indigenous objects from the two American continents, as well as from Africa, Oceania and Indonesia.

Palatium. Research about european residences between 1400-1700 is a Research Networking Programme financed by the European Science Foundation (ESF). It brings together scholars from different fields across Europe to promote trans-disciplinary and trans-national research on Court Residences as Places of Exchange in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1400-1700).

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On 26 November 2010 an international working meeting will take place in the Academic Conference Centre, Husova 4, in Prague, to mark the completion of the "Resurrected Treasure" project. Participating in the meeting on the Norwegian side will be the representatives of the Preus Museum of photography Hanne Holm-Johnsen, Jens Gold and Hege Oulie. Papers will be presented on the Czech side by Jiří Roháček, Petra Trnková, Martin Krummholz (Institute of Art History, Prague), Tereza Cermannová, Libor Jůn, Petr Hudičák.

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