Between painting and illusion: [Im]material imagery of Czech modernity
| Autor: | Lucie Česálková, Kateřina Svatoňová |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Cultural Studies
Czech History Painting Visual Arts and Performing Arts Modernity media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050801 communication & media studies 050905 science studies language.human_language Argumentation theory Visual arts Exhibition 0508 media and communications language 0509 other social sciences Architecture Period (music) media_common Visual culture |
| Zdroj: | Early Popular Visual Culture. 10:383-406 |
| ISSN: | 1746-0662 1746-0654 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17460654.2012.724569 |
| Popis: | This media-archaeological study examines the environment of Czech modernity, delineated by two crucial events organized at the turn of the nineteenth century in Prague – the first entirely Czech General Global Exhibition (1891) and the Exhibition of Architecture and Engineering (1898). Within the space of exhibitions, it is revealed how the interaction of individual innovations brought about by the end of the century influenced the definition of a medium. The study does not just offer just an argumentation for media heterogeneity at the end of the nineteenth century and period differentiation of media definitions; it focuses also on manifestations of such media variegation in very specific local conditions. In order for these exhibitions to be able to demonstrate the continually promoted idea of a well-developed nation and to stimulate the spirit of enterprise in Czech industrialists, the newest inventions of Czech industry, engineering, science and culture were exhibited. At the same time, however, the c... |
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