Kniha zachycuje jedinečné setkání Theodora a Jana Pištěka, otce a syna, dvou vynikajících malířů, kteří se představili v roce 2022 na přehlídce Dva světy v pražské Galerii Villa Pellé. Šlo o významnou událost: přes nejužší příbuzenskou vazbu totiž společně nikdy nevystavovali. Theodor je klíčovou osobností hyperrealistického malířství a jeho…
The Staircases of Eva Jiřičná as an Art Form
This lavishly illustrated book is dedicated to the work of legendary Czech artist Theodor Pistek, with a focus on his paintings, reliefs, and installations related to cars, engines, automotive components, and pieces thereof. The book includes several of his iconic paintings (Great Landscape, Ecce homo, Visiting the Harrachs), which have become classics of photorealism, as well as examples of fantastical objects (Head of the Medusa, Gemini) and original three-dimensional installations (the monumental Reliquary). In addition, the book includes much new information that presents Pistek not only as an artist but also as a multifaceted athlete and sportsman, in particular as a talented racecar driver who even competed for the national team. Author Petr Volf also looks at Pistek's film-related work, whose highpoint is his Academy Award for the costume design for director Milos Forman's 'Amadeus', but which also includes screenwriting (for Frantisek Vlácil's unfinished 'The Rally') and design (the demonic race car for director Juraj Herz's 'Ferat Vampire').
Created in 1973–74 and previously unpublished in English in its entirety, Circus Sideshow , by Czech-born American photojournalist Antonin Kratochvil (born 1947), offers an amazing pageant of tightrope walkers, jugglers, snake women, giants, dwarves, contortionists and fire eaters at a circus in Gibsonton, Florida, a small coastal town near Tampa. The town was then known as a winter vacation hotspot for circuses, a place to recharge before setting out on their spring and summer cross-country tours. Visiting the mobile homes, caravans and trailers of the performers, and walking through their narrow alleys and circus tents, Kratochvil was able to photograph freely and intimately, and his black-and-white photographs testify to his vision of them as people expelled from society, but [who] were able to maintain their dignity. In 1974 he sent his photographs to the New York editorial office of American Photo , which the magazine’s art director, Jean-Jacques Naudet, printed as a ten-page report. Circus Sideshow documents an amazing lost American subculture.
Litomyšl. Město, které díky osvícené samosprávě zažívá svou druhou renesanci. Desetitisícová Litomyšl se stala metropolí moderní architektury. Odborníci hovoří o “litomyšlském” zázraku, jehož věhlas překročil hranice České republiky. Tato kniha Přibližuje okolnosti, jak k němu v období let 1990 až 2014 došlo.
Fotografická kniha je svědectvím o formujícím se českém undergroundu a představuje fotografie, které Jan Ságl pořídil během spolupráce se skupinami The Primitives Group a The Plastic People of the Universe koncem šedesátých a v první polovině sedmdesátých let. Snímky, které by státní orgány mohly snadno zneužít proti lidem na nich zachycených, musely být dlouhá léta skrývány. Znovu nalezeny byly až na jaře roku 2012 - po téměř 40 letech, když už je všichni považovali za nenávratně ztracené.
