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A stunning survey of the rarely seen book designs of Czech artist Josef CapekJosef Capek (1887-1945) was one of Czech modernism's most formative protagonists. The artist first studied weaving before finding his métier as both a painter and designer. During a short stint in Paris, he befriended the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, who was then the leading theorist of and driving force behind Cubism. Capek adopted the Cubist style, fusing it with moodier elements of Expressionism and Symbolism to create a uniquely Czech take on the style. Alongside his work as a painter, Capek designed several hundred book covers from 1918 until his death in 1945 for Czech publications of early twentieth-century authors such as Apollinaire, Karel Capek, Jan Bartos, Josef Hora, Josef Kopta, Pierre Mac Orlan, Giovanni Papini, Pirandello, Miroslav Rutte and Georg Trakl and nineteenth-century authors such as Flaubert, Goethe, Kropotkin, Sheridan Le Fanu and Arthur Machen. Capek's designs were much celebrated in Czechoslavakia for their simplicity and their virtuoso use of linocut. Itself a beautiful publication, The Book Design of Josef Capek: Seeing The Book presents a fully-illustrated and complete survey of this rarely seen work.

This volume presents a selection of buildings that illustrate and celebrate the architectural evolution and trend of the Visegrad Group-the alliance of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland-from 1990 to 2008. Eighteen examples from each country are examined across the eighteen years that have passed since the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

This is the first substantial monograph to examine the photography of Jaromír Funke (1896-1945), an innovator of modernist photography, comparable to contemporaries such as Jaroslav Rössler, Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy, Albery Renger-Patzsch, Aleksander Rodchenko, Paul Strand and Edward Weston. Funke initially worked within abstract photography, but eventually he invented his own genre called "photogenism"; in the 1920s, he was one of the first to embrace Surrealist innovations in photography. Also aligned with the Bauhaus, Funke was additionally influenced by Cubism, New Objectivity and Constructivism. In the second half of the 1930s, Funke established what he called "emotional photography," based on theories and writings by Surrealist André Breton. Made in cooperation with Funke's daughter, this book focuses primarily on the ideas that shaped and transformed Funke's work, while placing it within the context of European avant-garde photography and culture.

Photomontage was pioneered as a technique in central Europe in the 1910s, where it flourished as an art form through the end of World War II. While German artists such as John Heartfield, Max Ernst and Hannah Höch used the medium to respond to the atrocities of war, other areas of Europe were simultaneously experiencing a newfound political autonomy as the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed. For these artists, namely Polish and Czech, photomontage manifested itself in a Surrealist approach to cut-and-paste imagery that emphasized its potential for visual poetry. Photo/Montage in Print traces the explosion of photomontage art in book cover design and illustrated magazines in the interwar period. Documenting the remarkable contributions of Czech artists in the creation of the visual language of modern print media, the publication includes some of the leading artists of the Czech avant garde such as Karel Teige, Jindrich Styrsky, Toyen, Ladislav Sutnar and Frantisek Muzika.

The Life of Things presents a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century still life photographs from the collection of Munich-based director and film producer Dietmar Siegert. It includes works by Czech surrealists Emila Medková and Alois Noicka; Bauhaus students Herbert Bayer and Oscar Nerlinger; as well as Man Ray, David Hockney, Jürgen Klauke and others.

With numerous bound-in color booklets, this beautifully produced monograph compiles the photographs and video installations of Czech artist Alena Kotzmannová (born 1974). Her grainy, painterly black-and-white photographs of city scenes and landscapes are often rendered even more painterly by being exposed onto canvas.

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.

The first publication to survey the contributions of Czech students at the Bauhaus schoolA beautiful new publication featuring rarely seen photographs and documents, The Bauhaus and Czechoslovakia 1919-1938 looks at the Central European context and legacy of Germany's legendary Bauhaus school. This important center of avant-garde learning, whose teachers included artists such as Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Josef Albers, László Moholy-Nagy and Adolf Meyer, was a place of meeting and mutual inspiration for artists, designers and architects. Czech students brought their own original ideas and progressive techniques into this heady atmosphere. This volume, the result of many years of intense scholarly research by Czech art historian Markéta Svobodová, is the first publication to survey the contributions of Czech students in this creative environment, offering a fascinating student-centered perspective on the famed institution.

Hounded by the Czech Communist regime in the 1960s, the controversial photographer Miroslav Tich (born 1926) has today found acclaim for his photographs of women taken with homemade cameras. This handsomely produced Tich monograph is unique among Tichy publications for two reasons: firstly because the photographs, drawn from private collections, are all previously unpublished; and secondly because it is conceived and authored by the Italian former Situationist Gianfranco Sanguinetti, who has likewise come into conflict with state authorities, having been deported from France and Italy several times for his work with Guy Debord. The bulk of the photographs in this volume are derived from Sanguinetti's Tich collection, and are prefaced with a lengthy meditation on the photographer by Sanguinetti, who declares his admiration for Tich 's personal and artistic disregard for social conventions, and the anti-modernist character of his methods and materials.

An illustrated autobiography of the itinerant Czech architectCzech architect Zdenek Zavrel (born 1943) reflects on his career in the former Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic in this monograph-cum-memoir. Zavrel's reminiscences provide a unique chronicle of architecture's progression in postwar Europe. The book contains photo-documentation of all of Zavrel's built projects alongside archival photographs.

Fresh insights into the thought and work of the modernist architect, from Loos expert Christopher LongIn this collection of essays, noted architectural historian and University of Texas professor Christopher Long (author of Adolf Loos on Trial) examines some of the many influences that shaped the work of the great architect Adolf Loos (1870-1933). Long's finely tuned essays on subjects such as Loos' time in America, his famous essay "Ornament and Crime" and other subjects, are at once brief excursions into Loos' rich and complex intellectual world, and an attempt to shed light on an important time in the history of architecture and design. Long is deeply interested in Loos as an architect, but he is even more drawn to his profound and unique intellect, and to the clarity of mind with which Loos managed to probe and understand the realities of modern life. Loos, as Long writes, saw that "the problem of modernism was not the problem of style, but the problem of understanding how the world was changing."

Published on the occasion of the legendary Czech photographer's eightieth birthday, Josef Koudelka: Returning offers a comprehensive look at Koudelka's life and work, featuring all of the series for which he has become so well known, among them Beginnings, Experiments, Theatre, Gypsies, Invasion 68, Exiles and Panorama. Besides Koudelka's photographs, many of which have become canonical works of postwar photography, the book is notable for its inclusion of unique archival material, such as excerpts from his diaries, contact prints, examples of book or magazine mockups from 1969 in preparation for the Invasion 68 series, and photographs of friends, as well as other images from his personal life. The book was conceived and edited by Koudelka himself, making this volume an exceptional publication.

First published during the "Prague Spring" of 1968, this now-classic photo book by Czech photographer Millon Novotny (1930-1992) presents a portrait of the British capital as the nation was sloughing off the collapse of its empire. Novotny focuses on the city's street life and its architecture. "Here our 'dear, damned, deceptive city' is portrayed uniquely," wrote the British journalist A.G. Hughes for the first edition. A turning point in Novotn¿y's work that sees him shift from solitary images to series, Sixties London portrays citizens from all walks of life--commuters, pensioners, policemen, evangelists at Hyde Park's famous Speaker's Corner, children playing on the street, on the Tube or by the Thames in neighborhoods ranging from the East End to the City, the Docklands to Chelsea. This new edition contains a foreword by the author and journalist Josef Moucha.

Japanese-born photographer Reiko Imoto's second monograph gathers two new series, Time Traveler's Diary and Visions of the Other Side, her most surrealistic series yet. Imoto's moody black-and-white photography elicits ominous and disorienting effects from everyday scenes in city streets or interiors.

It was not so long ago that one would have been hard pressed to find a single Czech name in most western European or American books on the history of photography. Today, things are very different: photographers like Josef Sudek, Frantisek Drtikol, Jaromír Funke, Josef Koudelka, Jan Saudek and Antonín Kratochvíl enjoy international acclaim, and as Czechoslovakia emerged from over half-century of totalitarian rule, the rest of the world was astounded to discover that such a small nation could boast so many talented and original photographers. Nonetheless, entire chapters of the history of Czech photography remain largely neglected. Czech Photography of the 20th Century is the first volume to survey the main trends, figures and masterpieces of Czech photography from the beginning to the end of the last century. Its 517 plates include not only the most historically important photographs and photomontages, but also works that have lain buried in archives and rare books, or photographs published for the first time.

Sixty years of diverse approaches to glassThis volume introduces an international audience to 10 Czech artists working with glass today. Artists include Luba Bakicová, Klára Horácková, Martin Janecký, Vladimíra Klumpar, Tomás Krejcí, Zdenek Lhotský, Michal Macku, Jaroslav Róna, Petr Stanický and Michaela Spruzinová.

Buildings and pavilions between architecture and art, by a leading Czech sculptorWhile living in Austin, Texas, the Czech sculptor/designer/architect Jirí Príhoda (born 1966) produced a series of large architectonic structures in wood and metal, designed for various kinds of habitation. Documenting these pieces, the book includes an essay by Christopher Long.

Lahoda alternates between virtuoso realism and abstractionThe paintings of Czech artist Tomás Lahoda (born 1954) range from bright, energetic abstractions to figurative critiques of contemporary consumer society, varieties of kitsch or interpretations of advertising. This volume reproduces more than 300 works.

A leading Adolf Loos expert provides fresh insight into the last three years of the legendary architect's prolific careerPerhaps no one was more polemical in early 20th-century European architecture than Adolf Loos (1870-1933), the great modernist architect whose teachings against the Vienna Secession movement and emphasis on utilitarian design influenced architectural trends for years to come. This publication focuses on the final three years of Loos' career, during which he designed a number of houses using his own Raumplan concept of spatial planning. The Villa Winternitz was the very last house completed during Loos' lifetime and remains a perfect example of the architect's artistic maturation. Christopher Long, one of the leading scholars on Loos, presents new ways of understanding the architect's radical ideas about space and details how his practice evolved over the course of his career. Alongside his insightful scholarship are numerous plans and photographs of Loos' final works, presented together for the first time.

An illustrated account of the origins and legacy of Minimalist painting in the US and Europe through the lens of a landmark Stedelijk exhibitionThe term "Fundamental Painting" was coined by the Stedelijk Museum as the title of a 1975 exhibition that sought to highlight a new kind of painting emerging on both sides of the Atlantic. The show was built around Robert Ryman, and included 18 artists from Europe and the US, such as Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Gerhard Richter and Stephen Rosenthal. The then director of the Stedelijk, Edy de Wilde, called their work "a reflection on the foundations of painting." Fundamental Painting looks back on the impact of the 1975 show then and now, including an appendix of installation shots. The author, Claudia Rajlich, engages in a detailed description of the featured works and their execution, using this as a jumping-off point to survey 20th-century abstract and nonobjective painting in relation to the development of Minimalist painting.

A collection of architectural sketches by Czech architectural firm A69 architektiThis publication presents the work of Prague-based architecture firm A69 architekti, founded 25 years ago by Boris Redcenkov (born 1969), Prokop Tomásek (born 1969) and Jaroslav Wertig (born 1969). The book presents A69's extensive and varied award-winning projects, featuring hundreds of their architectural sketches.

On the tender surrealism of a leading Czech artist's dreamlike paintings and sculpturesFeaturing a sculptural cycle dedicated to Alma Mahler, captivating acrylic self-portraits and drawings of plants and aquatic creatures, this volume conveys the tremendous range of Czech painter and sculptor Erika Bornová (born 1964).

Prismatic, dreamy landscapes from a protagonist of the Stuckist movementThe enigmatic, colorful landscapes of "Stuckist" Czech painter Jirí Hauschka (born 1965) hark back to the Symbolism of turn-of-the-century painters such as Canadian painter Tom Thomson, German Expressionist Franz Marc, or, more recently, Daniel Richter and Peter Doig. This monograph surveys his engagement with these lineages of landscape painting.

A publisher, educator, historian and curator, Vladimír Birgus is a devoted photographer of the subjective moment. Since the early 1970s he has been capturing people and places in compositions that treat color and tone rigorously but never foreclose on the reading of the image. Something Unspeakable follows him through different cities and everyday encounters, moods, hidden desires and emotions.

In seven chapters--adolescence, maternity, entertainment, work, eroticism, faith and old age--Czech photographer Dana Kyndrov explores the subject of woman. Shot primarily in the 1990s but also in the 70s and 80s, Kyndrov's pictures non-judgmentally capture the women she encountered at home and in Switzerland, France and England.