Publication details
Křehké sny modernity : ČSR a Pardubice v zrcadle výtvarného umění 1918–1938
| Title in English | Fragile Dreams of Modernity : The Czechoslovak Republic and Pardubice as Reflected in the Fine Arts 1918–1938 |
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
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| Description | The exhibition project, dedicated to the centenary of the first Czechoslovak Republic, maps through the visual arts the period of 1918-1938. The focus of interest is the current state-of-the-art themes of searching for and creating a new state's identity, the advent of inter-war avant-gardes and their distant response in the region, as well as the contrast of advanced modernist bourgeois society turning to the West. All these questions compared to social and economic problems that were also fully articulated. Based on the broader context of the visual arts of this period, the project aims primarily at building and evaluating the image of the regional form of Interwar Modernist society, its ideals, dreams, victories and falls, with an emphasis on the main local themes of culture, sport and landscape. The exhibition, catalog and accompanying program thus for the first time recall important moments and leading artistic personalities connected with their activities or origins with the region of Pardubice and its surroundings, including Jaroslav Grus (1891–1983), Svatopluk Máchal (1895–1947), Emil Arthur Pittermann-Longen (1885–1936), Vojtěch Sedláček (1892–1973), but also Vladimír Sychra (1903–1963), Miloslav Baša (1887–1959), František Ropek (1901–1952), Ladislav Vele (1906–1953) and others . The exhibition, prepared in collaboration with regional and national memory institutions, draws on research from the collection funds organized by the East Bohemian Gallery in Pardubice, and many works will be presented in a new context for the first time in many years. At the same time, the comprehensive project is the starting point for future partial thematic outputs that could be devoted to individual authors and topics related to the issue of Pardubice and the local art fund in the coming years. |