Epocha salonů : České salonní umění a mezinárodní výtvarná scéna 1870—1914
| Title in English | The Era of Salons : Czech Salon Art and the International Art Scene 1870–1914 |
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | The book title "The Era of Salons" relates to the period 1870–1914, when the so-called salon art was at the peak of its popularity, and finally also in its late, final phase. The Paris-style art salons were intended to provide beholders with an overview of the full range of contemporary art on an international scale. There were also distinctive works of progressive trends (realism, naturalism, symbolism, Art Nouveau, etc.), but the creation of the middle stream (between academicism and modernity) prevailed, for which genre painting with anecdotal and moralizing point is particularly symptomatic; it is for this artistic production that the term salon art is used. It has long been neglected as a conventional and predominantly commercially oriented matter. A new evaluation did not begin until the end of the 1960s. Artists from the lands of the Bohemian Crown have lived and / or exhibited in the main art center, Paris, towns in Central Europe and elsewhere. The introduction and the text defining salon art are followed by three chapters focusing on the work of these artists in Paris, Munich and Vienna, and two more on Fine Arts Union for Bohemia (Krasoumná jednota) in Prague. The book has benn written by both editors and lead authors, as well as by Roman Prahl, Markéta Theinhardtová, Caroline Sternberg, Tomáš Sekyrka, Šárka Leubnerová and Michaela Kořistová. The publication reflects the work of several hundred artists (painters, sculptors and graphic artists), activities of ninety-five of which are detailed examined in structured medallions. |
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