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The art of Toyen: a source of inspiration for Hungarian painter Lili Ország

Although Toyen is well known as a major artist of the Surrealism movement, her legacy in 20th century art is less known. Lili Ország (1926–1978), a leading figure in modern Hungarian pain...

Conference Proceedings 2016

With research topic "Central Europe 1945-1989" Olomouc Museum of Art initiated in 2016 a cycle of regular interdisciplinary meetings focusing on the research of the socio-cultural environmen...

Figurative and Non-Figurative Art in CEAD

The graph shows figurative and non-figurative (abstract) art as two opposite poles, strongly differentiating from each other and resonating in the all-society and historical situation of the last half...

Flashback: Hermit 1992–1999

For two and a half years, seven banana boxes of documents have been sitting in the office of the Olomouc Museum of Art. Before that, their contents were stored in the Prague office of the Agosto Found...

From Surrealism to Abstract Art: the case of Lenica

The reading of mid-twentieth century abstract painting within the perspective of Surrealist aesthetics suffered greatly from the literary dictatorship that André Breton, Surrealism’s &ldq...

Joseph Antenucci Becherer | Magdalena Abakanowicz: Life and work – Presence (CZ)

The text is part of the catalog Magdalena Abakanowicz: Life and Work, published for the exhibition at the Olomouc Museum of Art in 2011.

New Media Museums Reader

At the end of the two-year project New Media Museums that focused on research in the field of collecting and preserving new media, a comprehensive Reader is published together with other outputs that ...

NMM: Report from the first workshop | 17.–18. 2. 2021

The opening workshop served as an introductory event for the founding partners of the project. Several thematic threads have been inititiated, which we plan to develop throughout the project. In the c...

Interview between Nela Klajbanová (PAF) and Sylva Poláková (NFA) – Artalk.cz (CZ)

In 2020, Národní filmový archiv launched the Videoarchive project, which responds to the lack of methodological procedures for the long-term care of the moving image. The aim of the project is to crea...

Vasulka Kitchen Cooking Reader #1 (CZ, EN)

At the end of 2020, the Center for New Media Art – Vašulka Kitchen Brno published the first scientific publication Vašulka Kitchen Cooking Reader # 1, Beyond Media Texts: Primal & Final. ...

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