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Lokální přístup. Mezinárodní ambice. Moderní umění a Střední Evropa 1918 - 1968
Proceedings from the International Conference of the Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague and New York University in Prague from 2003. Contributors: Timothy O. Benson, Anna Brzyski, Linara Dovydaityte, Eva Forgács, Irina Genova, Tomasz Gryglewicz, Jeremy Howard, Giedre Jankevičiute, Eduards Klavinš, Ljiljana Kolešnik, Vojtěch Lahoda, Esther Levinger, Christina Lodder, Marian Mazzone, Myroslava M. Mudrak, Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius, Martina Pachmanová, Damjan Prelovšek, Ivanka Reberski, Nicholas Sawicki, Deborah Schultz, Andrzej Szczerski, Darko Šimičić, Maria Elena Versari, Annika Waenerberg, Anna Wierzbicka, Mathew S. Witkowsky, Isabel Wünsche, András Zwickl.
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The Baroque as a banquet
Konečný, Lubomír
One of the basic constituents of Baroque art can be recognized in its ability to depict sensual qualities of the representable world as they can be perceived by means of the five traditional senses. In this article, this feature is considered in its wide historical context.
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Slavonic Byzantinism: aesthetics or politics?
Petrasová, Taťána
The text is focused on the political context of the church SS Cyril and Method in Karlin (1854-63) by Carl Roesner, today Prague, and it is compared with the cathedrale in Djakovo (1866-1888) that should be originaly designed by Roesner after the Prague church.
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Loos’s Raumplan as an English house turned upside down
Švácha, Rostislav
Analyses the interiors of Vienna architect Adolf Loos and his work with space. Loos’s cascade-structured space resembles the interiors of English modernist houses. However, Loos does not measure the varied vertical clearance of his rooms from the floor – in the English way – but from the basic level of the ceiling.
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