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| Author: | Theodor Pištěk, Petr Volf |
| Category: | Books, Art |
| Language: | English and Czech |
| Page count: | 144 |
| Binding: | Hbk |
| ISBN: | 978-80-7437-235-3 |
| EAN: | 9788074372353 |
| Date: | 2017 |
| Issue number: | 1. |
| Price: | 25 EUR |
| Size: | 21 x 23 cm |
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This lavishly illustrated book is dedicated to the work of legendary Czech artist Theodor Pištěk, with a focus on his paintings, reliefs, and installations related to cars, engines, automotive components, and pieces thereof. The book includes several of his iconic paintings (Great Landscape, Ecce homo, Visiting the Harrachs), which have become classics of photorealism, as well as examples of fantastical objects (Head of the Medusa, Gemini) and original three-dimensional installations (the monumental Reliquary). In addition, the book includes much new information that presents Pištěk not only as an artist but also as a multifaceted athlete and sportsman, in particular as a talented racecar driver who even competed for the national team. Author Petr Volf also looks at Pištěk’s film-related work, whose highpoint is his Academy Award for the costume design for director Miloš Forman’s Amadeus, but which also includes screenwriting (for František Vláčil’s unfinished The Rally) and design (the demonic race car for director Juraj Herz’s Ferat Vampire).
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.