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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Milan Sovilj, Ondřej Vojtěchovský, Boris Mosković (eds.) In recent years, the period of late socialism has become a primary focus in the historiography of the countries of the former Yugoslavia. Historians are interested in various aspects of the “second half” of the Titoist era, in which one can find both the roots of the later […]
De institutione musica (O základech hudby) Anicia Manlia Torquata Severina Boethia (cca 480–524) je se svými více než sto šedesáti rukopisnými výskyty suverénně nejrozšířenější hudebně-teoretickou prací evropského středověku. Dosud byla českým čtenářům přístupná pouze coby krátký úryvek ve výboru Boethius – Poslední Říman (1981). Zájemci o hlubší studium Boethiova traktátu tak byli odkázáni buď na latinský originál, nebo na překlady […]
Jaromír Krejčí – Petra Brukner Havelková – Marie Peterková Hlouchová et al. The second part of the monograph on the results of the archaeological excavation of Werkaure’s mastaba (AC 26; dated to the second part of the Fifth Dynasty) and its surroundings in central Abusir focuses on contexts dating to the First Intermediate Period, the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Old-Norse literature is known to the Czech reader mainly because of texts with pagan themes: the mythological and heroic songs of the Elder Edda, the pagan Skaland poems and sagas of antiquity. Less well known is that after their Christianization in the 10th to 12th centuries, the ancient Northmen produced a whole range of literary […]