ENGLISH BOOKS

selected works put into the historical context of their origin.

Catalogue of the exhibition of the same name in the National Technical Museum in Prague.

In 1926, the communist avant-garde poet Konstantin Biebl (1898–1951) travelled from Czechoslovakia to the Dutch East Indies. In his texts, poetic and often comic, both landlocked Bohemia and the colonized tropical islands are seen disorientingly anew, like “mirrors looking at themselves in each other.” On This Modern Highway, Lost in the Jungle takes the reader on a journey crisscrossing the poet’s life and work, with particular attention to his travel writing and his dreams and memories of travel, as they mirror the book author’s own life experience as a Czech scholar of Indonesia living in island Southeast Asia.

Photography, visual art and texts about buildings have been exhibited in 2018 in the Contemporary Art Center DOX, but have been meant for book form from the start. In it the close proximity of photos and other techniques give the reader an ideal chance to examine the various tendencies of the different modes of communication.

The publication focuses on the rebuilding of the representative premises located in the northern wing of the Prague Castle on the occasion of the planned coronation of Franz Joseph I of Austria.

An extensive monography of Jiří Koliš about a prominent Czech photographer of 19th century František Fridrich 1829 - 1892.

The book will offer a comprehensive survey of ideas for architectural works in the second half of the 20th century, which, for various reasons (political, implementational, economic), were never built.

This monograph focuses on the mutual relationship of Leoš Janáček and the National Theatre in Brno, the most important theatrical institution in Moravia.

Urban architecture is embodied by buildings while the city is animated mainly by people around them. The book Hidden Places deals with the National Heritage Area in Prague, crosses the street scenery and rediscovers the relations that have been disappearing quietly from this particular space.

The author of this publication shows a picture of Prague from the time, when the Jagellons and first Habsbourgs ruled from the Czech throne.

Thirteen studies in English and German show the diversity of the production of illumination workshops between the 14th and 15th centuries, when Prague's book painting was of the top European quality, and investigates how the reform movement and the big socio-political changes of the Hussite period influenced the appearance of the manuscripts.

This collective monography is a shared work of theologues and art historians which tries to capture and describe the various aspects of human search for transcendence in history and today.

This bilingual book complemented with extensive photographs confronts the Danish and Czech modern furniture design created in the last 100 years.

Josef Sudek (1896–1976) photographed Prague’s monuments damaged during the Second World War, in particular during the air raid of 14 February 1945 and the Prague Uprising.

The book not only reconstructs but also constructs the apartment and studio of Ester Krumbachová, prominent artist of the Czechoslovak new wave, based on her peers’ memories and her estate which is being researched by art specialists and art historians.