Snad nesbíráte obrazy? Cesty soukromého sběratelství moderního umění v českých zemích v letech 1948-1965
| Title in English | You Aren’t Collecting Paintings, Are You? Paths of Private Modern Art Collecting in the Czech Lands between 1948 and 1965 |
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | A unique book monograph maps the situation of private art collectiong in the Czech lands after 1948. It freely follows the successful compendium of Lubomír Slavíček - "Sobě, umění, přátelům. Kapitoly z dějin sběratelství v Čechách a na Moravě 1650–1939" - published in 2007. An extensive fresco dwelling in the often bizarre and disturbing fates of art collections and their owners in the post-war totalitarian Czechoslovakia. It comes from the art historian and economist Marcela Rusinko (Chmelařová). Not only for his introductory study summarizing the social, psychological and economic motivation of art collecting in history, rich visual material but also a number of new factual findings it should not be missing in the library of any art collector. The author has spent many years publishing in the field of the art market, working with the public and private art collections. Now she lectures at the Departement of Art History, Faculty of Arts at Masaryk University in Brno. |