No man’s land?
No man’s land?

Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design bibliophily in the 1970s: an opportunity for special alternative publication

Summary/Abstract: Using available oral and written sources, this study attempts to at least partiallyreconstruct bibliophile activities at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design,which primarily took place at František Muzika’s studio in the form of Edice speciálkyFrantiška Muziky (František Muzika’s Special Studio Series) between 1949 and 1970;it also takes relevant account of the bibliophile editions involved in final year anddiploma work at Karel Svolinský’s studio. The fact that these works included a numberof titles, authors and/or débuts (Vratislav Effenberger, Karel Hynek, Jiří Kuběna, VěraLinhartová, Milan Nápravník, Ladislav Novák and Jan M. Tomeš, Texty experimentálnípoezie – Experimental Poetry Texts), which at that time were difficult to publish,indicates that there were other alternative publication space cases apart from “pure”samizdat. Hence the text also implicitly makes a contribution towards the study of“grey zone” issues that have not previously been comprehensively charted.

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