Milena Bartlová: Umění je to, co dělá život zajímavější než umění. Teoretik a kritik Josef Hlaváček

Public Lectures on Art Yesterday and Today are this time dedicated to the significant anniversary of UMPRUM, 140 years since its establishment. The 38th cycle will focus on "Personalities from the History of UMPRUM." Prof. Milena Bartlová will address the theme in the fourth lecture of the cycle: "Art is what makes life more interesting than art. The theorist and critic Josef Hlaváček."

The theorist and critic Josef Hlaváček, along with others, transitioned UMPRUM into new circumstances in the 1990s, serving as rector from 1994 to 2000. He qualified for this work through his writing and organizing in the previous two decades of so-called normalization in the realm of tolerated and politically persecuted culture. The lecture will address the circumstances under which such activities took place and will also attempt to show that Josef Hlaváček was the author of original and significant theoretical texts. It draws on materials and interpretations collected in the book "History of Czech Art II. 1970-1990," which will be published by UMPRUM Press this spring.
The 38th lecture cycle is prepared by Prof. Jindřich Vybíral.