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The Institute of Art History, the Czech Academy of Sciences is pleased to invite you to public lectures organized as a part of the advanced-level workshops in photograph conservation offered by the Getty Conservation Institute. Bertrand Lavédrine (Centre de Recherches sur la Conservation des Documents Graphiques ) and Tomáš Vyhlídal (The Czech Technical University in Prague) will give their lectures on Thursday, July 16, 2015, 16:00 at the Academic Conference Center, Husova 4a, Praha 1. For a program see this atachement.

Attached file: POSTER_public lecture.pdf

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The workshop will be offered on 13 – 24 July 2015 by the Getty Conservation Institute in partnership with the Institute of Art History, The Czech Academy of Sciences. The workshop will take place at the facilities of the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU), the Department of Photography.

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Christoph Brachmann, Professor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, gives the lecture ’The ‘Naumburg Master: A German Myth Reconsidered‘ held on the 23th June 2015 at 4. 00 p.m. in the Institute of Art History, Husova 4, Prague 1, room 117.

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Artists and artworks of Cubism are displayed now on the exhibition ’Rembrandt’s Tram: Cubism, Tradition, and Other Art’ in Pilsen, Gallery "13", from 10 June 2015 until 13 September 2015. The Czech Cubism of the Group of Fine Artists (Skupina vytvarných umělců) is an extraordinary source of material from which to understand how the modernist movement related to European tradition and to ‘other’ art and exotic forms of expression. The pioneers of Cubism – painters Emil Filla, Vincenc Beneš, Josef Čapek, Antonín Procházka, sculptor Otto Gutfreund, architects Pavel Janák, Josef Gočár, Josef Chochol, Vlastislav Hofman and others – drew on a broad base of inspirations to formulate their creative and intellectual ideas. Their range of interests was regularly on display between 1911 and 1914 in the group’s Art Monthly review (Umělecký měsíčník) and in the group’s exhibitions. They embraced a variety of European and non-European cultures of different periods: from Antiquity to the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Age and up to modern French art represented by Paul Cézanne, André Derain, and Pablo Picasso. Examples of their work show how they sought to resolve specific problems associated with questions of form and simultaneously to reinforce the legitimacy of modern expression by tying it to a historical tradition.

Attached file: TZ_Rembrandtova tramvaj. Kubismus, tradice a jiné umění.pdf

In the sixth issues of Umění / Art 2014 we would like to draw your attention to articles about ’The Mantegna Tarocchi and the View of the World in Northern Italy in the 15th Century‘ by Eva Skopalová, about the representation of royalty in the article on the book ‘The Entertainment of His Most Excellent Majestie Charles II’ by Tomáš Murár or ‘The Sacred Image in Bohemia in the First Third of the 19th Century’ by Pavla Machalíková.

On Tuesday 26 May 2015 the international workshop “Červený Hrádek under the Buquoys. The Oldest Landscaped Parks in the Czech Lands” took place in the main hall of the chateau in Červený Hrádek near Jirkov. The event was organised by the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences as part of the NAKI project “Rescuing Memory: the Restoration of the Buquoy Property and its Place in Czech Cultural Identity”, in cooperation with the Silva Tarouca Research Institute for Landscape and Ornamental Gardening and with the support of Jirkov municipal authority. Opening speeches and words of welcome from Radek Štejnar, the Mayor of Jirkov, and Bedřich Fryč, Director of the Jirkov Cultural and Educational Centre, were followed by presentations by international participants. Géza Hajós (Vienna) described the process of the origin and development of landscaped gardens in England and their early reception in continental Europe. Christian Hlavac (Vienna) dealt with the oldest Austrian foundations, and Roland Puppe (Dresden) examined selected localities in Saxony. The five papers presented in the second section were devoted to the oldest Czech landscaped parks: Krásný Dvůr (Markéta Šantrůčková), Vlašim (Veronika Pincová), Nové Hrady (Martin Krummholz), Veltrusy (Pavel Ecler) and Kačina (Pavel Novák). The speakers in the third section discussed Červený Hrádek itself. Martin Krummholz presented various aspects of its artistic decoration and furnishing, Michal Běčvář considered the fortunes of the chateau around the year 1900, Markéta Šantrůčková reviewed the history and development of the Červený Hrádek park, and Štěpán Bílek examined the recent restoration of the fountain in the garden there. This extremely well-attended event confirmed once again the benefits of interdisciplinary dialogue and the positive role played by cooperation with municipal politicians and the local cultural scene.

The art historian Prof. Rostislav Švácha from the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences has been awarded the “Sport and Art” prize by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). As a Czech News Agency release mentions, the IOC has awarded the “Sport and Art” prize since 1985, with each competition having a different theme. Proposals for awards are submitted by the national Olympic committees. “Sport and art have belonged together since antiquity,” said Jiří Kejval, President of the Czech Olympic Committee. “The IOC is conscious of this. An artificial gap exists between these two phenomena, which can be successfully bridged thanks to people like Rostislav Švácha. Professor Švácha is a Renaissance person who is aware of the overlaps between the two fields. We are already preparing together another book which will examine sport and art in broader contexts.”

On 8 April 2015 Markéta Svobodová from the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences delivered a lecture in the lecture hall of the Institute in Husova Street in Prague as part of the cycle of lectures Collegium historiae artium. Her paper was devoted to one of the most prominent Czech typographers and graphic designers from the interwar years, Zdeněk Rossmann. The speaker focused on one of the less well-known parts of Rossmann’s work: his views on architecture, his designs that were never implemented, his stage sets, and, in particular, his exhibition activity, to which the typographer devoted himself professionally after 1950.

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The Institute of Art History ASCR invites you to attend the Research forum in humanities and social sciences: Art history / Philosophy will be held on Tuesday, 14 April 2014 at 2.00 p.m. in the Academic Conference Center, Husova 4a and Literature / Art History / Aesthetic / Musicology on Wednesday, 13 Mai at 2.00 p.m. in the Institute of Czech Literature ASCR, Na Florenci 3. This upcoming April a series of bi-disciplinary gatherings will allow researchers from every field in the humanities and the social sciences to introduce their research topics. Discussions will help coining down potential collaborations with the CEFRES. The new director of the center, Ms. Clara Royer, will outline the perspectives of an institution, which after 25 years of existence, is turning into a key element of the Czech academic milieu.

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The new issue no.14 of the bulletin Studia Rudolphina has been just published by the Center for Visual Arts and Culture in the Age of Rudolf II.

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The Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences announces a selection procedure for candidates for a two-year study visit as part of the Programme for Support of Promising Human Resources. Candidates must be employees with an education at university level who correspond to the qualifying stage “postdoc”, who obtained their PhD no more than two years ago. This period does not include maternity or paternity leave. Applications should consist of: - a professional CV with evidence of the candidate’s research abilities (and where applicable organisational and teaching abilities) - a list of published work - the title of the research theme and outline work programme proposed by the candidate, including the titles of the projects on which he or she will work These documents are to be submitted to the secretariat of the Director of the Institute at the address Husova 4, 110 00 Praha 1, by 20 March 2015. Candidates who are successful in the selection procedure held by the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences will progress to a selection procedure for the whole of the academic sector, which will decide on the two-year financial support.

Attached file: Ústav dějin umění AV ČR postdocs.docx

It is thirty years since the death of one of the leading Czech art historians, the medievalist Josef Krása. His work as a specialist was closely connected with the Institute for Art Theory and Art History of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, where he worked from 1957 onwards. As secretary for research at the Institute, editor-in-chief of the journal Umění, and member of the academic committee for art research of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, the international committee of CIHA, and a number of other scholarly and editorial committees, he played a role of fundamental importance in preserving and developing the field of art history in the exceptionally difficult period of “normalisation” in the 1980s, when he courageously promoted the need to accept and reflect on important international methodological concepts. The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic later expressed its appreciation of the exceptional contribution made by Josef Krása, and in April 2003 it awarded him the František Palacký honorary medal in the field of art history in memoriam.

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The Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences announces selection proceedings for inclusion in the “Programme of support for promising human resources – Salary support for post-doctoral researchers in the workplaces of the Czech Academy of Sciences”. Please submit this basic information by 20. 3. 2015 to the Secretariat of the Director of the Institute. The candidate may only be an employee with university education equivalent to the qualification level of “post-doctoral”, at most 2 years after the defence of the title of PhD. This period does not include time spent on parental/maternity leave. The application for inclusion in the selection proceedings should contain: - The professional CV of the candidate and evidence of his/her research and eventually organisational and pedagogical skills, - List of published articles - The name of the research theme and general work programme of the proposed candidate, including the names of the projects on which he/she will be working. Candidates who are successful in the selection proceedings of the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences will continue to the contest for the Academy as a whole, which will decide on two years financial support.

Attached file: Support for human resources_CAS postdocs.docx

The international summer school “Baroque Rural Churches in the Context of European Culture” is being prepared for the week 5-12 July 2015 by the Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, the Instytut Historii Sztuki Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, the Roman Catholic parish in Broumov, and the civic association Omnium, in cooperation with the Czech National Heritage Institute, the Cultural Heritage Documentation and Digitisation Centre at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, and the Faculty of Restoration of the University of Pardubice in Litomyšl. Students, teachers, and specialist staff from the following institutions of higher education and other institutions have agreed to take part and to be involved in the preparations for the meeting: Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich; Institute of Art History, Zagreb; France Stele Institute of Art History, Ljubljana; the Institute of Art History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava; Institut für kunst- und musikhistorische Forschungen, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna; the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague; the Philosophical Faculty of Palacký University in Olomouc; the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno; and the Faculty of Catholic Theology and the Arts Faculty of Charles University in Prague. The meeting will take place under the auspices of the Czech National Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS).

Attached file: Broumovsko_Letni_skola_2015_04.pdf

It is thirty years since the death of one of the leading Czech art historians, the mediaevalist Josef Krása. His work as a specialist was closely connected with the Institute for Art Theory and Art History of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, where he worked from 1957 onwards. As secretary for research at the Institute, editor-in-chief of the journal Umění, and member of the academic committee for art research of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, the international committee of CIHA, and a number of other scholarly and editorial committees, he played a role of fundamental importance in preserving and developing the field of art history in the exceptionally difficult period of “normalisation” in the 1980s, when he courageously promoted the need to accept and reflect on important international methodological concepts. The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic later expressed its appreciation of the exceptional contribution made by Josef Krása, and in April 2003 it awarded him the František Palacký honorary medal in the field of art history in memoriam.

On 26-28 February 2015 researchers from Germany, Austria, France, the USA, and the Czech Republic gathered in Plzeň to discuss the phenomenon of loyalty in 19th-century culture and society at the 35th Plzeň Symposium on 19th-Century Issues. This year’s symposium, with the theme “Invisible Loyalty? Austrians, Germans and Czechs in 19th-Century Czech Culture”, was organised by the Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and the Institute of Czech Literature, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, in cooperation with the West Bohemian Gallery in Plzeň. The conference was accompanied by an exhibition entitled “The Risk of Loyalty? Austrian, German, and Czech Cultural Loyalties in 19th-Century Czech Art”, prepared by the West Bohemian Gallery in Plzeň in cooperation with the Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The West Bohemian Museum in Plzeň also prepared an exhibition to accompany the symposium. A literary evening focusing on Johannes Urzidil’s work Ich bin hinternational took place in the Artamo coffee-house, Čelakovského 5, Plzeň.

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We invite you to visit exhibition room “13” in the West Bohemian Gallery in Plzeň, where the exhibition “The Risk of Loyalty? Austrian, German, and Czech Cultural Loyalties in 19th-Century Czech Art” is now open. The exhibition was prepared by Taťána Petrasová from the Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, together with Markéta Theinhardt from Université Paris 4 – Sorbonne. The theme corresponds to the focus of this year’s meeting of experts on 19th-century issues, which is being held in Plzeň this year for the 35th time.

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The Institute of Art History wishes you all the best for 2015.

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The Czech Chamber of Architects (Czech acronym ČKA) this year awarded its annual Pocta prize to Professor Rostislav Švácha, a respected expert on modern and Baroque architecture from the Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. ČKA has awarded this prize since 2000 to figures who have found a prominent place in the history of modern Bohemian and Moravian architecture. In explaining the reasons for this year’s choice the commission stressed the “clear views on the calling of architecture” expressed by this historian of architecture and university teacher in advocating the acceptance of architecture by contemporary Czech society as an important cultural and social phenomenon. Švácha’s books, published by the prestigious MIT University Press – Karel Teige, 1900-1951: L´Enfant Terrible of the Czech Modernist Avant-Garde, Cambridge, Mass. - London 1999 (co-editor Eric Dluhosch), and The Architecture of New Prague, 1895-1945, Cambridge, Mass. - London 1995 – promoted Czech avant-garde architecture in a world setting.

In the fourth issues of Umění / Art 2014 we would like to draw your attention to articles about the depiction of reality in the Late Middle Ages by Meteusz Grzęda or a new interpretation of van Gogh’s A Pair of Shoes. Do not miss an treatise of Skarina’s Russian Bible in the context of Christian and Jewish book printing in Prague in the early sixteenth century.