Jaroslav Malina in scenography and painting / edited by Joseph Brandesky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brandesky, Joseph, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Malina, Jaroslav, 1937-2016.

Malina, Jaroslav.

Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery--Czech Republic--20th century.

Theaters.

Set designers--Czech Republic--Biography.

Set designers.

Art--Czech Republic--20th century.

Art.

Painting, Czech--20th century.

Painting, Czech.

Modernism (Art).

Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery.

Czech Republic.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

288 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Prague : Karolinum Press, 2019.

Summary:

Although Czech scenographer and painter Jaroslav Malina (1937-2016) lived in turbulent times, he won international respect for his work. Spanning Malina's entire life - from his early years in the Nazi protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, through four decades under communism and the period after the Velvet Revolution returned the Czech state to democracy - the essays and interviews in this volume examine the depth and breadth of his accomplishments. Essays by scholars from the Czech Republic, United Kingdom, and the United States clarify and illuminate Malina's contributions to art both in Central Europe and across the world. Exploring multiple aspects of Malina's career, they shed light on his roots in modernism, which characterized the years of the First Republic (1918-38), through the advent of postmodernism, contextualizing his accomplishments in a variety of media while adding insights about his methods and their philosophical underpinnings. Appearing in print for the first time, interview transcripts provide an intimate view of the impulses that guided Malina over the course of his career. Also featuring over one hundred and fifty color images that illustrate the connections between Malina's public scenographic work and his more personal paintings, this book reveals Malina as an artist who continued to work during difficult and changing times without ever losing a very human approach to life.

Contents:

I. Permanent interaction: reflections on the paintings and designs of Jaroslav Malina (1937-2016) / Joseph E. Brandesky

II. Jaroslav Malina: a scenographer of action, chaos, and deep inner order. An attempt at a characterization of methods / Vlasta Koubská

III. Reconstructing a treacherous place. Jaroslav Malina's scenography for A Midsummer Night's Dream / Jules Deering

IV. Commentary on transcripts of Jaroslav Malina interviews / Dennis Christilles

V. Jaroslav Malina interviewed by Joseph Brandesky in 2007 ande 2010. Transcripts / Dennis Christilles

VI. Malina and Svoboda. A discreet comparison of Czech scenographers / Věra Velemanová

VII. Jaroslav Malina and opera. Czech scenography from resistance to repression to freedom for expression / Nena Couch

VIII. "There probably is some higher power." Philosophical undercurrents in the work of Jaroslav Malina / Pavel Drábek.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-288).

ISBN:

9788024642697

8024642697

OCLC:

1124987156