Czech visual art between 1947 and 1960 has never before been considered in a broader European context that avoids the stereotype of the “Iron Curtain”. At the same time, when looking at this period, certain clichés and stereotypes are repeatedly perpetuated, hindering the understanding of the true nature and position of Czech art during this […]
A new catalogue of Open Access journals published by the Faculty of Arts, Charles University has been published: Catalogue 2023/2024 (PDF download). You will find profiles of individual academic periodicals together with contacts to editors and links to complete web archives of numbers. All mentioned journals are freely available either in the form of individual […]
Anna Pravdová When you say “Czech artists in interwar Paris”, everyone today thinks of the names František Kupka, Josef Šíma, Jindřich Štyrský and Toyen. When the same thing was said to the art-loving Parisian of the twenties, the names Georges Kars, Othon Coubine and François Zdenek or François Maurice Eberl came to mind in the […]
Filip Coppens, Jiří Janák, Květa Smoláriková (eds.) Professor Bareš’s admirable passion for knowledge nicely corresponds to the main focus of the religious and magical spells from the Late Period shaft tombs in Abusir, whose ultimate goal was to acquire a sacred status by accumulating secret knowledge. It is hence with great pleasure that on […]
The edition of the diaries of one of the most prominent figures of the interwar avant-garde, Karl Teige (1900–1951), from 1912‒1925, represents a unique set of notes that Teige kept from childhood to early adulthood. Buy in e-shop
The monograph „The Yurta-Stroyno Archaeological Project. Studies on the Roman Rural Settlement in Thrace“ has been just published by the Faculty of Arts Press. Beside the editors and main authors – Petra Tušlová, Barbora Weissová, and Stefan Bakardzhiev, following authors also contributed: Viktoria Čisťakova, Věra Doležálková, Robert Frecer, Clarissa Haubenthal, Petra Heřmánková, Jiří Kmošek, Adéla […]
The Czech Institute of Egyptology (Charles University, Prague) has just published THE PYRAMID FIELDS OF ANCIENT EGYPT: A SATELLITE ATLAS. Topography and spatial and temporary development of some twenty historically unique pyramid sites are reviewed and discussed in detail by leading archaeologists and Egyptologists based on the latest high-resolution specifically commissioned satellite images. The […]
The Faculty of Arts Press presents a new publication written by Pavel Barša, Zora Hesová, and Ondřej Slačálek from the Department of Political Science at CU FA. Without separating Central Europe from global trends, the authors of this book look at a change in the political dynamics of post-accession Central Europe through the prism of the culture wars. […]
Prague Egyptological Studies (PES) is a bi-annual double-blind peer-reviewed English journal prepared by the Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, in Prague. The journal was published regularly since 2002 in Czech, starting from 2015 also in English and since 2021 only in English. The journal accepts archaeological reports as well as original studies on […]
The Czech translation of the autobiography Cesta bílým terorem (Journey Through the White Terror) by Kang-i Sun Chang, a world-renown sinologist, has been published. The book recalls the period of persecutions in post-war Taiwan by giving the account of stormy family history. The preface was prepared by Prof Olga Lomová from the Department of Sinology at the Faculty […]
ojtěch Bažant, Věra Soukupová, Martin Šorm (edd.) Pokusy opustit lidskou perspektivu mají v humanitních vědách a zejména v literární, kulturní a historické antropologii dlouhou tradici. Medievistika v pojetí historika Martina Nejedlého je charakteristická napětím mezi pozorováním okrajového a ústředního, mezi zaměřením na touhy lidské a nelidské, rostlinné i zvířecí. Příspěvky jeho francouzských a českých […]
Antonín Policar Kniha se zabývá estetickými úvahami Karla Heinricha Heydenreicha (1764–1801), vlivného německého filosofa pozdního osvícenství, se záměrem ukázat, jak se v jeho pojetí estetika – ve středoevropském prostoru tradičně ukotvená filosofická disciplína – na konci osmdesátých let 18. století vyrovnávala s novými výzvami souvisejícími s nástupem transcendentální filosofie Immanuela Kanta. Kromě analýzy různorodých strategií, […]
Vojtěch Bažant — Jaroslav Svátek (eds.) This book discusses travelogues that were copied, read or written in the Czech lands during the 14th and 15th centuries. It first analyses their narrative strategies, focalisation, reader definitions and constructed images of „others“, and then proceeds to examine in detail the surviving manuscripts, their specific characteristics and […]
Josef Vojvodík Josef Vojvodík deals in this book with poems written in exceptional states and under exceptional circumstances: in totalitarian state prisons or as a reflection of the prison experience (Konečný, Kostohryz, Renč), in psychiatric hospitals (in the case of clinical psychologist Zbyněk Havlíček), and in exile (Diviš). From the very onset, however, the author […]
The five-book treatise De institutione musica (Fundamentals of Music) by Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Boethius (c. 480 – 524) is, with its more than one hundred and sixty manuscript occurrences, the most widely published music- -theoretical work of the European Middle Ages. Like other treatises by Boethius, De institutione musica is based upon earlier texts. […]
Jakub Rákosník, Jakub Vrba, Bohumil Melichar, Martin Dolejský (eds.) This critical edition brings together 94 texts published in the press of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia between 1921 and 1938. It is a selection from thousands of articles that appeared on the pages of hundreds of titles during the period under review, whose periodicity varied […]
Vojtěch Kinter This book examines the relationship between the philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche and Ladislav Klíma. The author is critical of Klíma’s popular label “Czech Nietzsche” which is at least conceptually anchored in scientific discourse about Klíma and explicitly used in a broader context. By criticizing the label, the author explores the extent of Nietzsche’s influence on Klíma […]
Matěj Klíma The monograph deals with the reception of Ladislav Klíma’s work and personality in Czech culture. It is divided into four sections. In the first one we focus on the reactions to his work during his lifetime. In addition to the reflection on the plays and published books, we also follow small magazine polemics […]
Ai Qing In the 20th century, Chinese poets turned their backs on classical models and sought inspiration from European and American avant-garde. Ai Qing (1910–1996) belongs to the second generation of Chinese modernists. He initially studied painting in France, but after returning to China, he made his mark as a poet, enriching Chinese poetry with […]
Marie Klimešová, Hana Rousová Czech visual art between 1947 and 1960 has never before been considered in a broader European context that avoids the stereotype of the “Iron Curtain”. At the same time, when looking at this period, certain clichés and stereotypes are repeatedly perpetuated, hindering the understanding of the true nature and position of […]
Alfonso de Valdés Vyplenění Říma vojsky ve službách císaře Karla V., k němuž došlo v květnu roku 1527 v rámci takzvaných italských válek, představuje jednu z nejbolestnějších ran, které Věčné město během své dlouhé historie utrpělo. Jakým způsobem však tuto událost, která na většině míst tehdejší katolické Evropy vyvolala zděšení a odsudky, vnímali lidé, kteří stáli na císařské […]
Gabriela Dudeková Kováčová, Jakub Rákosník, Juraj Benko a kol. Kniha ponúka ucelený pohľad na premeny verejnej starostlivosti o chudobu a sociálno‐politických opatrení v habsburskej ríši a Československu. V tematických kapitolách zachytáva vývoj od polovice 18. do polovice 20. storočia vrátane vplyvu politických režimov počas druhej svetovej vojny. Naznačuje vývoj sociálnej ochrany od kresťanského milosrdenstva ku […]