Vendula Hnídková: Avangards and Socialist Realism
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April 6, 2016, 18:00
VENDULA HNÍDKOVÁ /Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic/
THE BATTLE OF FORM IN THE WAR OF IDEOLOGIES.
AVANT-GARDES AND SOCIALIST REALISM
The Cold War divided the world into two warring camps. Their mutual antagonism was massively fueled by the propaganda of both political blocs, but a different manifestation was also required of artistic concepts and their creators. In architecture and its history, the transparency of late modernism often stands in direct opposition to the heaviness of socialist realism. Nevertheless, behind this black-and-white theory, a less dogmatic reality unfolded.
Vendula Hnídková (*1978) studied art history at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno, and design theory at UMPRUM in Prague (Ph. D.), while also studying at universities in Vienna and Helsinki. In 2013, she was awarded the Otto Wichterle Prize. Since 2004, she has been working at the Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences in Prague. She focuses on the architecture and design of the 19th-21st centuries with an emphasis on the role of creators against the backdrop of political history, the influence of ideologies on artistic creation, and the problematization of conventional narratives in art history. She is the author of the exhibition National Style. Culture and Politics (2013, NG in Prague) and co-author of the permanent exhibition The World Between Löw-Beer and Tugendhat (2016, Löw-Beer Villa, Brno). She has published Pavel Janák. Outline of the Era (2009) and National Style. Culture and Politics (2013). She is currently preparing a monograph Moscow 1937. Architecture and Propaganda in a Western Perspective, in which she examines the rise of socialist realism in the USSR.
Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
U Akademie 4, aula – 3rd floor
Organized by The Research Institute of AVU in cooperation with the Department of Theory and Art History AVU.
Technical support Digilab AVU, online stream Czech Television.
More information HERE
April 6, 2016, 18:00
VENDULA HNÍDKOVÁ /Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic/
THE BATTLE OF FORM IN THE WAR OF IDEOLOGIES.
AVANT-GARDES AND SOCIALIST REALISM
The Cold War divided the world into two warring camps. Their mutual antagonism was massively fueled by the propaganda of both political blocs, but a different manifestation was also required of artistic concepts and their creators. In architecture and its history, the transparency of late modernism often stands in direct opposition to the heaviness of socialist realism. Nevertheless, behind this black-and-white theory, a less dogmatic reality unfolded.
Vendula Hnídková (*1978) studied art history at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno, and design theory at UMPRUM in Prague (Ph. D.), while also studying at universities in Vienna and Helsinki. In 2013, she was awarded the Otto Wichterle Prize. Since 2004, she has been working at the Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences in Prague. She focuses on the architecture and design of the 19th-21st centuries with an emphasis on the role of creators against the backdrop of political history, the influence of ideologies on artistic creation, and the problematization of conventional narratives in art history. She is the author of the exhibition National Style. Culture and Politics (2013, NG in Prague) and co-author of the permanent exhibition The World Between Löw-Beer and Tugendhat (2016, Löw-Beer Villa, Brno). She has published Pavel Janák. Outline of the Era (2009) and National Style. Culture and Politics (2013). She is currently preparing a monograph Moscow 1937. Architecture and Propaganda in a Western Perspective, in which she examines the rise of socialist realism in the USSR.
Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
U Akademie 4, aula – 3rd floor
Organized by The Research Institute of AVU in cooperation with the Department of Theory and Art History AVU.
Technical support Digilab AVU, online stream Czech Television.
More information HERE
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