Title & Author:

Surrealism and photography in Czechoslovakia : on the needles of days / by Krzysztof Fijałkowski, Michael Richardson, Ian Walker.

Publication:

Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2013]

Description:

xv, 198 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Series:

Ashgate studies in surrealism

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1. Years of Long Days: Surrealism in Czechoslovakia / Krzysztof Fijalkowski -- Photo Analysis A: Poetry, Revolution and the City / Krzysztof Fijalkowski -- 2. Jindrich Styrsky and Czech Surrealist Photography in the 1930s / Ian Walker -- Photo Analysis B: Paris Afternoon / Ian Walker -- 3. Between Photograph and Poem: Styrsky and Heisler's On the Needles of these Days / Ian Walker -- Photo Analysis C: Impossible Objects / Krzysztof Fijalkowski -- 4. Objective Poetry: Post-war Czech Surrealist Photography and the Everyday / Krzysztof Fijalkowski -- Photo Analysis D: In the Courtyard / Michael Richardson -- 5. Emila Medkova, The Magic of Despair / Krzysztof Fijalkowski -- Photo Analysis E: At the Castle of La Coste / Michael Richardson -- 6. `Island-Beacons in the Sea Of Reality': The Photographic Cycles of Vilem Reichmann and Jiri Sever / Ian Walker -- Photo Analysis F: J.S. Bach: Fantasia in G Minor / Ian Walker -- 7. Complementary Knowledge: Photography and the Contemporary Group of Czech-Slovak Surrealists / Michael Richardson.

Summary:

This book 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, very little of which has been seen outside of the Czech Republic. Based on intensive research at museums in Prague and Brno, Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Michael Richardson, and Ian Walker analyze Czech Surrealist photography from the beginnings of Czech Surrealism in 1934, to the intriguing expressions of the 1950s through the 1970s, to the unprecedented cohesion and rigor of the present-day Czech and Slovak Surrealist group. The main chapters of the book, ordered chronologically, are intersected with shorter texts which examine specific works. These images represent the continuing challenge that Czech Surrealism presents, and pinpoint the process whereby individual images can act as charged moments of interrogation and sometimes disruption.

ISBN:

9781409406280 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1409406288 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Surrealismus 1982
Photography, Artistic.
Surrealism Czechoslovakia.
Photographie artistique.
Surréalisme Tchécoslovaquie.
art photography.
Surrealism
Fotografie
Experimentelle Fotografie
Czechoslovakia
Tschechoslowakei

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Fijałkowski, Krzysztof, author.
Richardson, Michael, 1953- author.
Walker, Ian, 1952 May 15- author.
Richardson, Michael, 1953- author. Years of long days.
Ashgate studies in surrealism.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 284286
Call No.: BIB 223009
Status: Available