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Epigraphica & Sepulcralia 14. Forum of epigraphical and sepulchral studies. Proceedings of the conference Family Necropolises in Bohemia: Possibilities and Methods of Their Research and Presentation, Prague 26-27 October 2022
Chlíbec, Jan ; Hrdinová, M.
The collection of narrowly specialised studies is a product based on the interdisciplinary symposium Family Necropolises in Bohemia: Possibilities and Methods of Their Research and Presentation (Prague 2022) within the research programme Strategy AV21: Anatomy of European Society, this meeting of experts is one of the outcomes of the project Family Necropolises in Bohemia in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: Regionalism, Inter-Regionalism and Internationalism. Family necropolises and their artistic equipment are important sources of knowledge about the life of noble society in the Late Middle Ages and early modern times. The given theme is examined from various aspects combining the humanities and exact sciences – from the perspectives of history, art history, archaeology, and geological disciplines, as well as a detailed analysis of archival sources. These various approaches produce a manifold image of the studied issue. At the turn of the Middle Ages and modern times new noble necropolises emerged whose artistic aspect – tombstones and epitaphs, sometimes with other funeral elements such as family banners, shields, and armour – mark a significant chapter of Czech art history. The craftsmanship as well as the type of material selected for these works often reflect the period and fashion trends in the field of sepulchral art culture. Furthermore, noble necropolises as a sacral space served as family self-presentation, a place that in addition to the religious function documented profound tradition of the family, its glory, and social status; figural tombstones, if present, may have acted as a portrait gallery of the family.
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Tombstones of the Švamberks of the 15th – early 17th Century from an Art Historical Perspective
Chlíbec, Jan
Only a fragment has remained from the original collection of the Švamberk family tombstones that was still quite large at the beginning of the 18th century. Surprisingly,\neven though the Švamberks were a prominent noble family, the surviving works usually show average or below-average quality which, as far as the 15th century works are concerned, reflect the prevailing condition of sepulchral sculpture in Bohemia of the time. More factors could have been behind opting for an austere form of the tombstone. In addition to the Utraquist criticism of majestic funeral works and the lack of high-quality stonemasons after the Hussite Wars, it could be the general idea of resistance to pride and accentuation of the confirmation of Christian modesty regardless of the buried person’s confession.\n
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New paths to recent music: Archives, documentation centres, and museums related to Czech popular music
Opekar, Aleš
The article presents a comprehensive view of documenting the history of popular music in the contemporary Czech Republic. After a historical introduction, outlining the broader historical context of the domestic situation and a brief context of the situation abroad, the author introduces new institutions, mostly non-profit organizations, which began to emerge after 1989 with the aim of collecting, archiving, and making available archival materials which tell the history of various areas of Czech and Czechoslovak popular music and culture. Through their activities, they have replaced, and continue to do it, the nonexistent interest in this area of culture on the part of the state, which persisted from the pre1989 period (that is before the fall of the communist regime in the former Czechoslovakia). Self-help activities are gradually finding their interdependence with, if not anchorage in, the state or academic environment. The archival and museum institutions established after 1989 focused on the previously neglected area of popular music and unofficial culture – such as Libri prohibiti, Popmuseum, Centre for the Study of Popular Culture, and Archive of Czech and Slovak Subcultures – cooperate with each other and with those previously established.
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Works by Antonín Sucharda Jr. for Church Interiors in Northeastern Bohemia
Hladká, Kateřina
The artistic workshop of Antonín Sucharda Jr. (1843–1911) produced furniture and artworks for numerous church interiors of catholic parishes in Eastern Bohemia, and in many cases also restored older church equipment. The design of these artworks was increasingly influenced by Antonín‘s oldest son Stanislav Sucharda, who had been involved in the family workshop since childhood. The organization and artistic repertoire of this workshop were reconstructed, based on archive records and comparison with signed artworks and design drawings from the family heritage.
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Max Dvořák and Turn of Art (History) to Work of Art
Murár, Tomáš
In the last years of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, it is possible to observe in literature and the visual arts the destabilisation of previously valid values in relation to tradition, which was no longer able to sufficiently express the world in its completeness. This process can also be observed in art historical research, in its shift away from research into the autonomous development of art towards defining a work of art by thinking about the time of its creation. This transformation is identified in particular with the influence of the spiritual sciences (Geisteswissenschaften), which were also developed by the Czech-born art historian Max Dvořák. In this paper it will be shown, using his thought as an example, how the art historical definition of the work of art can be related to the art of the early 20th century, i.e. as defining itself against the hitherto valid thought concepts of the late 19th century.
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The Prager musikalisches Album (1838) and the nineteenth-century salon as cultural practice
Bunzel, Anja
This article deals with a collection of songs and piano pieces, the Prager musikalisches Album, published in 1838, asking two central questions. Drawing on different concepts of the musical work (Werkbegriff), I explore whether the album can be considered a work rather than a loose collection of multiple works. Within the musicological discourse there have been many attempts at defining these terms, ranging from quite narrow categorisations based on aspects of instrumentation, musical form, or stylistic matters to more open approaches encompassing the communicative process and viewing the history of genre as cultural history. Drawing on the latter, I suggest that the Prager musikalisches Album is a prime example of collective authorship, which opens up a second question, namely that of authorship. Authorship may embrace aspects of agency that exceed the realms of the person who penned a musical, literary, or artistic work. Indeed, it may be shaped by performers, audiences, presses/ salespeople, dedicatees, critics, patrons, and anyone else who has an impact on any given work at the time of its creation and/or publicization. By taking this perspective, I suggest that the Prager musikalisches Album is both reflective and representative of nineteenth-century salon culture, within whose context the album was embedded. Offering a holistic analysis of the album and its context, I use this article as a springboard to advocate for a musical historiography that takes into account the full breadth of musical culture, and which embraces, besides composers and poets, a number of other cultural agents that are often overlooked within more traditional music-historical considerations.
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19th Century Methodology of Art History and Research from the Perspective of Progress
Petrasová, Taťána
The paper analyses the possibilities that opened up in the period 1981–1990 for the interdisciplinary research of Historicism in the former Czechoslovakia, given by the founding tradition of the Pilsen symposia. On the one hand, the researchers followed the current ideas of “art and progress” dealt with Ernst Gombrich (1971). From the opposite side came supporters of the idea of “rationality and irrationality” of development as a source of intellectual and aesthetic authenticity of 19th century works, such as jako Rudolf Chadraba, Jiří Ševčík, Helena Lorenzová a Vladimír Macura.
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Epigraphica & Sepulcralia 12. Forum of epigraphical and sepulchral studies. The Proceedings of the 20th International Sessions on the Issue of Sepulchral Monuments, Prague 2-3 November 2021
Roháček, Jiří
The proceedings of the 20th international sessions on the issue of sepulchral monuments, which took place in Prague on 2–3 November 2021. These regular conferences, organized since 2000 by the Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, are focused on sepulchral monuments as material artefacts of sepulchral culture and as works of art in the traditional sense of the word, with a factual or methodological relation to the Central European issues. However, they do not avoid themes, that more widely explain the context, in which these monuments were created and were functionally applied. The emphasis is placed on the nature of interdisciplinary expert meetings. Through their focus and periodicity, they are unique in a pan-European context. The series Epigraphica & Sepulcralia has been the publication forum of these sessions since 2005. The conference proceedings contain a total of eighteen papers. In addition to Czech and Moravian topics, traditionally, a significant share of the conference is devoted to foreign issues, specifically Polish and Slovak, and indirectly to other regions of Central Europe. The significant share of papers dealing with the reflection of sepulchral and epigraphic monuments in written sources, which allow a slightly different view of the issue, is highly positive.
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