Surrealism and Photography in Czechoslovakia: On the Needles of Days

ISBN-13: 9781138260795 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 214 str.

Krzysztof Fijalkowski; Michael Richardson; Ian Walker

Opis

Surrealism and Photography in Czechoslovakia sheds much-needed light on the location of the single greatest concentration of Surrealist photography - the Czech Republic - and examines the culture and tradition of Surrealist photography that has taken root and flourished there. This volume explores a rich and important artistic output, from 1934 to the present, very little of which has been seen outside of the Czech Republic.

Recenzje

'The authors all have deep backgrounds in the study of Surrealism and photography and their contributions weave together in seamlessly ... those who read it will find its pages "very rich for eyes."' Rain Taxi Review of Books

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Years of long days: surrealism in Czechoslovakia, Michael Richardson and Krzysztof Fijalkowski; Photo analysis A: poetry, revolution and the city, Krzysztof Fijalkowski; Jindrich Å tyrský and Czech surrealist photography in the 1930s, Ian Walker; Photo analysis B: Paris Afternoon, Ian Walker; Between photograph and poem: Å tyrský and Heisler’s On the Needles of these Days, Ian Walker; Photo analysis C: impossible objects, Krzysztof Fijalkowsi; Objective poetry: post-war Czech surrealist photography and the everyday, Krzysztof Fijalkowski; Photo analysis D: In the Courtyard, Michael Richardson; Emila Medková, the magic of despair, Krzysztof Fijalkowsi; Photo analysis E: At The castle of La Coste, Michael Richardson; ’Island beacons in the sea of reality’: the photographic cycles of Vilém Reichmann and Jírí Sever, Ian Walker; Photo analysis F: J.S. Bach: Fantasia in G Minor, Ian Walker; Complementary knowledge: photography in the contemporary group of Czech-Slovak surrealists, Krzysztof Fijalkowski and Michael Richardson; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.