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The motif of timelessness - something that allows the past, the present, the future to merge - is what connects the two cycles by painter Patrik Hábl, now presented jointly in the publication Immortáles - Through the Eyes of Time. The cycle Faces of the Dead and Disappearing, along with the series of paintings reinterpreting the iconic works of the Old Masters, bear within themselves a deep personal experience and, for their author, form a theme that he continually rediscovers and re-investigates - in the case of his Old Master reinterpretations, for over thirty years.
The current publication combines the artist s personal view with critical reflections from professional art historians. These texts by Patrik Hábl, Lucie Němečková and Jana Peroutková reveal this oeuvre in its full visual, historical, and symbolic context.
Czech Photography of the 20th Century, published simultaneously in Czech and English versions, is the first book to present the main trends, figures, and works of Czech photography from the beginning to the end of the last century to such a large extent. Its 517 plates include not only the most important, well-known photographs and photomontages, but also works that have long been forgotten or are published for the first time. The book is arranged in seventeen chapters, supplemented with chronologies of the most important events in twentieth-century Czech photography and history.