Autodestrukcja. Sytuacje graniczne we współczesnej kulturze

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

A collection of articles devoted to self-destruction in culture. The authors analyse suicidal acts in terms of culture, taking into account contemporary culture (literature, press, film) in which such attempts become objects of reflexion. The book has a novel structure: each part consists of two articles, in which the authors observe the title problem from different perspectives, entering into an intriguing dialogue and showing arguments which are often debatable in terms of interpretation.

PARYSKA KULTURA – 1952 / 052 + 053

Author(s): Czesław Straszewicz,Józef Łobodowski,Teodor Parnicki,Thomas Stearns Eliot,Alicja Iwanska,Józefa Radzymińska,Juliusz Mieroszewski,Jerzy Prądzyński,Anatol Mühlstein,Janusz Kowalewski,Darsie Gillie,Branko M. Lazić,Zygmunt Markiewicz / Language(s): Polish

PARYSKA KULTURA – 1953 / 071

Author(s): Stanisław Zarzewski,Józef Pretwic,Czesław Miłosz,Witold M. Gombrowicz,Bogumił Andrzejewski,Juliusz Mieroszewski,Maria Danilewicz-Zielińska,Stefan Korboński,E. Wreciona,Szymon Szyszman,Jan Torosiewicz (Andrzej Vincenz),Zygmunt Stermiński,Olga Żeromska,Jan Winczakiewicz,Krzysztof Górski / Language(s): Polish

PARYSKA KULTURA – 1953 / 072

Author(s): Józef Czapski,Czesław Miłosz,Janusz Jasieńczyk (Janusz Stanisław Poray-Biernacki),Melchior Wańkowicz,Józef Łobodowski,Czesław Straszewicz,Juliusz Mieroszewski,Józef Marlewski,Witold Kostrzyński,Włodzimierz Bączkowski,Konstanty Jeleński,Zdzisław Broncel,Aleksander Kawałkowski / Language(s): Polish

PARYSKA KULTURA – 1953 / 073

Author(s): Juliusz Mieroszewski,Jurij Serech,Witold M. Gombrowicz,Marian Pankowski,Rudolf Hagelstange,Danuta Bieńkowska,Paweł Hostowiec (Jerzy Stempowski),Michał Sokolnicki,Wojciech Zaleski,Józef W. Włodarkiewicz,Kazimierz Iranek-Osmecki,Maciej Feldhuzen,Lech Paszkowski,Janusz Jasieńczyk (Janusz Stanisław Poray-Biernacki) / Language(s): Polish

PARYSKA KULTURA – 1953 / 074

Author(s): Juliusz Mieroszewski,Łukasz Winiarski,Witold M. Gombrowicz,Jan Ulatowski,Wojciech Zaleski,Bogdan Konaszewicz,Krzysztof Górski,Zbigniew Różycki,Michał Sokolnicki,Józef Czapski,Jan Torosiewicz (Andrzej Vincenz),Aleksander Janta,Franciszek Olipra,Zdzisław Broncel,Alfred Burmeister / Language(s): Polish

Poszukiwanie tożsamości w kraju (nie)pamięci. O dokumentalnej twórczości Ruth Beckermann

Author(s): Olga Wesołowska / Language(s): Polish

Ruth Beckermann is an Austrian-Jewish filmmaker, born in Vienna as a daughter of Holocaust survivors. She can be seen as so-called Nestbeschmutzer (German world for someone who fouls their own nest). This term in Austria refers to artists who are not afraid to criticize their own country, who dare to deconstruct Austrian myths and come up with taboo topics. This is exactly what Beckermann does in many of her works. Not only in her movies but also in books, essays, and artistic installations. Nevertheless, Beckermann should not only be considered as a Nestbeschmutzer, since many of her works actually are a form of self-reflection about Jewish identity in the country which presents itself as a first victim of Hitler. This book focuses on Beckermann as a filmmaker. The analysis of her documentaries shows how she portrays Austria and Austrians. For the film analysis, the cultural, historical, and political context appears significant. The references to different aspects of cultural studies, especially memory studies or postcolonial studies, constitute the methodological background for this book.

Herec a režisér v rozhlase. Kapitoly z tvorby Jiřího Horčičky a Josefa Melče

Author(s): Tomáš Bojda / Language(s): Czech

The monograph deals with the problems of radio acting and radio directing. Both of these components are interrelated, in theory reflecting their creative role in the origin of radio drama. The research is focussed on the work of two important Czech radio directors: Jiří Horčička and Josef Melč and their best achievements dating back to the seventies and eighties twenties of the 20th century. Its methodology is based on the structuralist theory of Jiří Veltruský, whose structural and semiotic theory is applied to radio theory. Apart from Veltruský, the research is also grounded on the basic monographs by Czech radio theoreticians, in the first place on the publications by Jan Czech and Alena Štěrbová, and also on the theory of radio dramatization of fiction by Jan Lopatka.

Milý příteli: Dopisy Bohuslava Martinů Zdeňku Zouharovi / Dear friend: Bohuslav Martinů´s Letters to Zdeněk Zouhar

Author(s): Zdeněk Zouhar,Vít Zouhar / Language(s): English,Czech

This unique collection of letters form the last ten years of Bohuslav Martinů's life addressed to Zdeněk Zouhar is a key testimony to Martinů's works, life and relationship between the composer and the interpreter of his works who premiered the cantata The Opening of the Springs, the cycles Three Part-Songs and Three Sacred Songs and initiated the origin of the primrose cycle. This edition captures Martinů's specific literary style in authentic form, without corrections, provides facsimiles of letters and juxtaposes the correspondence with the composer's letters to his family, firends, performers, as well as the reminiscences of his wife Charlotte. A more detailed picture of the composer's last years is emerging.

Bohuslav Martinů & Miloslav Bureš: 1955-1959

Author(s): Vít Zouhar / Language(s): English,Czech

The book describes the creative relationship between the composer Bohuslav Martinů and the poet Miloslav Bureš. It explains their cooperation in the second half of the 1950s, the creation of the cantatas Opening of the Springs, Romance of Dandelions, Legend of the Smoke of potato nati and Mikeš of the Mountains, but also their unrealized plans. It brings a new perspective on the context of the period. The publication is published in a Czech-English mirror edition.

Transpozycje stylów opery w dziełach kultury

Author(s): Dobrochna Ratajczakowa,Iwona Puchalska,Ryszard Daniel Golianek,Adam Regiewicz,Elżbieta Nowicka,Katarzyna Lisiecka,Marcin Bogucki,Paweł Regiewicz,Anna Igielska,Przemysław Krzywoszyński,Natalia Kaminiczna,Maciej Szargot,Barbara Szargot / Language(s): Polish

The monograph Transpositions of Opera Styles in Works of Culture comprises interdisciplinary reflections on literature, film, music and image in connection with the art of opera and its cultural contexts. The authors of the chapters have used as their point of reference works in which there are various transpositions of operatic styles, both in the art of earlier eras and in the phenomena of contemporary culture (including poetry, novels, music videos, dance theatre, computer games). The conceptual anchor for the issues raised was established by the traditional aesthetic categories of "style" and "work" (styles of opera, work in culture), read in two ways: (1) because of the genre-form specificity and the individual dramatic, musical, theatrical, literary and other components that determine the phenomenon of opera, in addition to (2) a form of all kinds of signum of operatic art and its themes recorded in cultural works, allowing, among other things, the search for a paradigm of "opera-ness", open to various ideological, cultural and aesthetic readings. The approaches, analyses and interpretations of the works presented here take into account the preservation of the memory of the context from which the material to be transposed originated, and the results of creative processes are characterized by formal-artistic reference to the initial original (motif, theme, idea, style, thread, form, the entire work), establishing an indispensable element of the trans-positio process. It is thanks to this that the results of such processes are represented and actualized in art and culture, and with them also in humanistic reflections, the experience of the vitality of tradition, the art of memory and the melding of horizons, all confirming the multi-level symbolic and allegorical rooting of the art of past eras as well as of modern times.

Кирило-Методиевски места на паметта в българската култура

Author(s): / Language(s): Bulgarian

The present collection of articles is the result of the work on the project “The Cyrillo-Methodian Places of Memory in Bulgarian Culture” of the Cyrillo-Methodian Research Centre at the BAS. It is a contribution to the estsblishment of European cultural route "Cyril and Methodius", which is part of the virtual cluster "Cyrillomethodikon" within the framework of project No. BG05M2OP001-1.001-0001 "Establishment and development of Centre for excellence "Heritage BG". The research focus in the collection are "places of memory" in Bulgarian culture, which to become into elements of the Bulgarian part of the route.

The Black Box Book: Archives and Curatorship in the Age of Transformation of Art Institutions

Author(s): / Language(s): English

The publication is the result of the efforts of an international collective of authors to capture the transformation of exhibition institutions and curation during the Covid 19 pandemic, with a focus on the year 2020. It seeks an answer to the question of how curatorial strategies, communication platforms and the social function of exhibition institutions have changed under the influence of rapid and external circumstances, that forced transition from physical gallery spaces to online. It critically reflects on the exhibition project Černá skříňka/The Black Box (Galerie TIC), in which several curatorial approaches were applied, including the use of artificial intelligence, and places it in the broad context of curatorial projects that were carried out at the same time at home and abroad as well as in the network of terminology apparatus, which is built around the phenomenon of online curation. The research method is a combination of writing the history of presence, mostly from the pen of direct participants, which lends authenticity and engagement to the texts, with theoretical reflection informed by digital and network media theory.

Old Masters in New Colours

Author(s): / Language(s): English

The study of the artworks of the Old Masters has long been the prerogative of art historians alone. Expertise and other art-historical methods can now make much greater use than ever before of the findings of the so-called exact sciences. These make it possible to acquire new knowledge about works of art of the past that is not obvious to our eyes. Imaging and instrumental methods for the study of works of art often allow us to literally “look into the painting”, below the surface of what we see, and observe the work in different areas of the invisible spectrum of electromagnetic radiation, for example. By using various research methods – with the necessary caution and awareness of their limitations – it is often possible to gain insight into the hypothetical process of the creation of the work and into the painting’s layers. It is possible to characterize the material nature or technological processes or to study the author’s changes and later interventions in the work. Various research methods allow us to see artworks from different perspectives and to study them figuratively speaking “in new colours”, often the colours in which they appear to our eyes using a variety of imaging methods. How an art historian can work with technological knowledge and to what extent he can rely on it at all is demonstrated and addressed in a total of seven case studies dealing with hanging paintings by Old Masters from the collections of the Archbishopric of Olomouc and the Olomouc Museum of Art.

Milý Franku: I. Dopisy Bohuslava Martinů Franku Rybkovi z let 1941 až 1954 / Dear Frank: I. Bohuslav Martinů's Letters to Frank Rybka from 1941 to 1954

Author(s): Jana Honzíková,Vít Zouhar / Language(s): English,Czech

The correspondence between Bohuslav Martinů and Frank Rybka often surprises with the directness, frankness and lightness of the composer as he asks for advice and help or describes everyday events. Frank Rybka was the composer's childhood friend and from the 1940s onwards was among his closest confidants. As a result, the writing is casual and relaxed. It reminds us of conversations between age-old comrades, where no topics, questions or requests are off the table. It is direct, playful, but also hedonistic. Additionally, however, it contains the composer's final will and testament from the dramatic year of 1948. After their arrival in March 1941, Frank Rybka helped the Martinů family build a new life in the United States. He organised their living quarters, transport, books, new contacts, helped negotiate royalties, find musicians, as well as provide Bohuslav Martinů with alibis for his holiday jaunts. This supportive role is also emphasized in the solitary letter from Martinů's girlfriend Rosalie Barstow. This first volume of correspondence with Frank Rybka highlights the origin and performance of a number of Bohuslav Martinů's compositions. It documents the complicated search for a soloist for his Cello Concerto No. 2, for the title of the composition Thunderbolt P-47, the work on the opera Mirandolina or Martinů's musings about Dostoyevsky's novel The Possessed. An ostensibly breezy exterior disguises the cavalcade of dramatic events that occurred to the composer and his wife Charlotte during the years 1941-1954.

Týnský kostel a architektura poděbradské doby

Author(s): Jana Pařízková Čevonová / Language(s): Czech

"The Church of Our Lady before Týn, since the 14th century the main parish church of the Old Town, after the Hussite Wars the main church of the Utraquist Church in Bohemia and Moravia and an unmissable dominant feature of the historical centre of Prague, is the second most important medieval sacral building in Prague after St. In syntheses of the history of Czech Gothic architecture, it is often ranked at the forefront of the development of the architecture of the Luxemburg period, and at the same time the completion of the church after the Hussite Revolution is mostly presented as the most important building of the time of George of Poděbrady. On closer inspection, however, the ideas of many authors regarding the identification of the pre-Hussite and post-Hussite parts of the church differ fundamentally, which raises important questions for the understanding of the architecture of the Poděbrady period. The present book on the Late Gothic completion of the Old Town Church of Our Lady of before Týn attempts to contribute at least partially to a more detailed treatment of the architecture of the Poděbrady period, which summarises many years of research on the building."

Dear All (III): Dopisy Bohuslava Martinů rodině v Poličce z let 1934 a 1935 / Bohuslav Martinů´s Letters to his Family in Polička in 1934 and 1935

Author(s): Jaromír Synek,Gabriela Všetičková / Language(s): English,Czech

The monograph is the third volume of Bohuslav Martinů's correspondence with his family in Polička. It comprises 56 items of correspondence from 1934 and 1935. Although one-sided, as only letters sent by the composer were preserved, the correspondence contains Martinů's unique and authentic remarks on both his personal and his professional life, in which he shared his news, intentions, and opinions both with his closest relatives and, through them, to a broader circle of friends in Polička and Czechoslovakia. The Czech version provides a true diplomatic transcription of Martinů's manuscript letters and includes facsimiles of the correspondence. Comprehensive annotations give historical context. The monograph includes a parallel English translation.

Drazí II. Dopisy Bohuslava Martinů rodině v Poličce z let 1932 a 1933. Dear all II. Bohuslav Martinů´s letters to his family in Polička in 1932 and 1933

Author(s): Jaromír Synek,Gabriela Všetičková / Language(s): English,Czech

The monograph is the second volume in a series that will encompass the correspondence of the Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů with his family in Polička. This volume contains 56 items of correspondence (letters, post card) from the years 1932 and 1933. The correspondence is one-sided as only letters sent by Bohuslav Martinů to his mother and siblings were preserved. Even so, these documents are unique and authentic expressions, in which Martinů remarks on both his personal and his professional life - with the aim to share his news, intentions, and opinions firstly with his closest relatives but secondly also, through them, to a broader circle of his friends in Polička and Czechoslovakia. The Czech version provides an exact diplomatic transcription of Martinů's manuscript letters.

Milý Miloši: Dopisy Bohuslava Martinů Miloši Šafránkovi

Author(s): Vít Zouhar,Gabriela Coufalová / Language(s): Czech

A collection of correspondence with Miloš Šafránek, Czech diplomat, music publicist, promoter of the work and biographer of B. Martinů contains diplomatic transcriptions of one hundred and sixty-eight letters, six postcards, five correspondence notes, one telegram and one sticker from the period 1928-1959. The correspondence is mostly one-sided, addressed to M. Šafránek, with M. Šafránek being the sender of only two items. The authors of the edition respect the specifics of Martinů's linguistic expression, which is why they chose the method of diplomatic transcription of letters. The entire text is supplemented by extensive annotation, which not only illuminates the historical context and the political situation in the most turbulent years of the 20th century, but also comments on the genesis of the works, the circumstances of performing, recording and publishing Martinů's compositions.

Miejsca (nie)istniejące. Krajobraz socjalistycznej Sofii jako przestrzeń bułgarskich praktyk artystycznych po 1989 roku

Author(s): Angelika Niewiadomska / Language(s): Polish

The book aims to present the artistic ways of problematising the (non-)existence of material manifestations of the communist past in the space of present-day Sofia. Using the tools of visual anthropology as well as cultural studies on art and the city, the author delves into recent history of Bulgarian culture, providing a detailed overview of the historical context, including the mechanism by which the city space was arranged in the second half of the 20th century, the spatial heterogeneity of today’s Sofia, and the present changes in ways of defining art and its meaning. The discussed artists consider art a way of articulating engagement – taking on an activist stance, they invite the audience to join in on an exciting game, whose field, object and stake is the city.