Flying with wax wings : Josef Mánes (1820-1871) /
"Josef Mánes (1820-1871) was a creator on whom the Czech revivalist society placed its hopes for the creation of a national art. Mánes was a painter, draftsman, decorator, author of models for applied art and architecture, and an enfant terrible ofthe domestic art scene. A disgraced artist but...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the Czech. |
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[Prague] :
Karolinum : Artefactum,
[2024]
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| Summary: | "Josef Mánes (1820-1871) was a creator on whom the Czech revivalist society placed its hopes for the creation of a national art. Mánes was a painter, draftsman, decorator, author of models for applied art and architecture, and an enfant terrible ofthe domestic art scene. A disgraced artist but an entertaining companion, he was idealized and profaned in various cultural and political contexts. This volume offers a new perspective on a canonized figure, broadened by the varied voices and approaches of collective authors. Flying with Wax Wings explores the many depictions of Mánes, the result of the research of a collective of authors whose aim was to introduce the key personality of nineteenth-century Czech art in the context of contemporary European art and from the current position of today's art history. The result is a monograph on Josef Mánes that presents not only a complex view of his multifaceted work, but also contextualizes the Czech art scene of the period"--Page [4] of cover. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published in Czech as Let s voskovými křídly. Josef Mánes (1820-1871) by Arbor Vitae Societas, Prague 2022."--Colophon. |
| Physical Description: | 323 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography: | Inclueds bibliographical information and index. |
| ISBN: | 9788024657820 8024657821 9788088283942 8088283949 |