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Hans von Aachen in Context. Proceedings of the International Conference Prague 22-25 September 2010 in stock

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This volume presents the results of the international conference “Hans von Aachen and New Research in the Transfer of Artistic Ideas into Central Europe,” organized by the Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v. v. i. (in particular by its research center Studia Rudolphina), in Prague on September 22–25, 2010.

ARTEFACTUM, Prague, 2012, 237 x 287 mm, 280 pages, English and German, ISBN 978-808-6890-42-5
 

Twenty after twenty in stock

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Catalogue of an exhibition of the same name, which took place late 2009 in Gallery of Jaroslav Frágner in Prague which introduced individual studios: architects themselves as well as their works. Among the three chosen projects are realizations, competittive projects, studies and visions.

Jaroslav Fragner Gallery and ARCHITECTURA, Prague 2009, Czech, Slovak, English, 205 x 215 mm, 192 pages, ISBN 978-80-904484-0-7

Poklady Moravy / Treasures of Moravia in stock

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In this billingual publication the collective of authors presents the contribution of Moravian history and its personalitites of Czech, European, and world culture since the beginning of the settlement of Moravia by paleolithic hunters until the 20th century.
The Moravian Museum, Brno 2010, 210 x 260 mm, 376 pages, English and Czech, ISBN 978-80-7028-371-4

A Communicative Town / Sdílné město unavailable

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Publication introduces historical development of the drapery in Krnov, accompanies by the catalog of all 37 textile factories in Krnov. It also shows a factory of Alois Larish and son's company in detail.
National Heritage institure, Ostrava 2008, 114 pages, 145 x 210 mm, Czech and English, ISBN 978-80-85034-44-8

Airfields and Airports of Ostrava in stock

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The new bilingual publication "Airfields and Airports of Ostrava" is focused of the establishment and development of aviation support in the city of Ostrava.
National Heritage Institute, Ostrava 2010, 111 pages., 150 x 210 mm, Czech and English, ISBN 978-80-85034-56-1

Karolinum in stock

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Second, modified and expanded edition of a publication about the history of the Karolinum building and the education and celebraation of the Charles University.
Karolinum, Prague 2010, 192 pages, 260 x 200 mm, ISBN 9788024618777

New Slovak Architecture / Nová slovenská architektúra in stock

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Subjective selection of Henrieta Moravčíková introduces roughly 100 works of Slovakian architecture realized after 2000 with an introductory professional study.

Slovart, Bratislava 2010, 256 pages, 220 x 270 mm, Slovak and English, ISBN 978-80-8085-871-1

Collective and Individual Patronage in stock

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Anniversary of the death of Josef Hlávka in 2008 was an opportunity for musing about the institute of patronage and its operation in wider relations - geographic and temporal.
Historický ústav AV ČR v.v.i., Prague 2010, 158 x 215 mm, 618 pages

Bára - The Incredible Story of a Tower in stock

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This book tells the story of Bára tower, an original wooden structure designed by Martin Rajniš, built by a team of architects and carpenters, destroyed by a tornado, and reborn again. In Czech and English.

Zlatý řez, Prague 2010, 215 × 370 mm, Czech and English, 79 pages., ISBN 978-80-87068-06-9

D3A Airy architecture / Živá architektura in stock

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Interviews with the three principals and over 70 projects and realizations describe the evolution of their architecture against the backdrop of dynamic social, political and technological changes in the Czech Republic over the past 20 years.
Zlatý řez, Prague 2009, 220 × 165 mm, 264 pages, Czech and English, ISBN 978-80-87068-05-2

Bohumil Hrabal. A Full-length Portrait in stock

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Described by Parul Sehgal in the New York Times Book Review as “one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century; the scourge of state censors; the gregarious bar hound and lover of gossip, beer, cats, and women (in roughly that order),” Bohumil Hrabal is one of the most important, most translated, and most idiosyncratic Czech authors.
Karolinum, Prague 2019, 140 pages, 145 x 205 mm, ISBN 978-80-246-3909-3

Prague - The City and its River in stock

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The appearance, character, and life in Prague has been from the beginning heavily influenced by Vlatava, river, whose flow has prepared the relief of the landscape for the settlement of the Prague basin and to later form a city, which grew into a metropolis.
Karolinum, Prague 2017, 200 x 260 mm, 200 pages, English, ISBN 978-80-246-3292-6

Trial by Theatre in stock

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The motto Národ sobě – “From the Nation to Itself” – inscribed over the proscenium arch of Prague’s National Theatre symbolizes the importance theatre holds for the Czechs.
Karolinum, Praha 2019, 320 str., 170 x 240 mm, ISBN 978-80-246-3953-6

A Czech Dreambook in stock

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It’s 1979 in Czechoslovakia, ten years into the crushing restoration of repressive communism known as normalization, and Ludvík Vaculík has writer’s block. On the advice of a friend, Vaculík begins to keep a diary: "a book about things, people and events.”
Karolinum, Prague 2019, 576 pages, 160 x 210 mm, ISBN 978-80-246-3852-2

A Typology of Conservation-Restoration in stock

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Efforts to move from the renovation of historic buildings to their conservation-restoration stem from a desire to see greater sensitivity applied in the care of historic monuments. This volume presents a selection of projects planned and executed by the architectural studio of Girsa and Hanzl.
Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague 2011, 157 pages, 235 x 280 mm, ISBN 978-80-0104-71-2

Adaptability as a Consequence of Ethnomobility in stock

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In the contemporary world, we can observe a mutual infiltration of cultures due to constant and intensive ethnomobility. There is not just a one-way adoption of cultural codes, as all interest parties are affected by multi-level cultural contacts.
National Museum, Prague 2012, 175 x 250 mm, 135 pages, ISBN 978-80-7036-368-3

Biedermeier: Art and Culture in the Bohemian Lands 1814 - 1848 in stock

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Czech and Moravian art of the first half of the nineteenth century reflects a distinctive artistic as well as ideological trend – Biedermeier. Although the Czech Biedermeier has been successfully presented abroad, no such show has yet taken place on home ground.
Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague and Gallery s.r.o., Prague 2014, 240 x 280 mm, 528 pages, 843, ISBN 978-80-7101-091-3

Castles of Hope in stock

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The life fates of the people who, during their childhood, experienced the Nazi extermination of the Jews, escaped the planned destruction and got into the castle sanatoriums of the Christian humanist Přemysl Pitter, written by Pavel Kohn and was first published in Czech in 2000.
L. Marek Publishing House, Prague 2018, 326 pages., 150 × 210 mm, ISBN 978-80-87127-91-9

Catalogue of Icons in stock

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Catalogue of Icons from the Collection of the formel N. P. Kondakov Institute in Prague.
Artefactum, Prague 1998, 160 x 235 mm, 216 pages, ISBN 80-902279-6-1

Československé gramofony - Czechoslovak record players 1946 - 1993 in stock

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Publikace "Československé gramofony 1946-1993" si klade za cíl seznámit širokou laickou i odbornou veřejnost s historií výroby gramofonů v Československu.

The publication „Czechoslovak Record Players 1946-1993“ aims to introduce to both, lay and professional public, with the history of gramophone production in Czechoslovakia.
Národní technické muzeum, Praha 2021, 265 x 215 mm, 389 str., bar., česky/anglicky,
ISBN 978-80-7037-338-5