[CZECH SURREALISM - SKUPINA RA] Skupina Ra [Group Ra]
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Sixth publication of Skupina RA (Group RA), a Czech post-war surrealist formation, issued on the occasion of their first exhibition in Brno, Prague, Bratislava and HradÄc Králové, which contains poems by Lorenc and Kundera, and images of works by Josef Istler, MiloÅ¡ KoÅeÄek, Bohdan Lacina, Vilém Reichmann, Václav Tikal, and Václav Zykmund. Alco contains the group's manifesto, in which it sharply distances itself from "orthodox" pre- war surrealism: "the terrible years of cultural isolation during the Protectorate and the total break from foreign avant-gardes brought about this state of affairs" (cited in Derek Sayer, 2013, p. 405). With two separate lists of works exhibited, at Brno and Hradec Králové, one of them with prices.
The Ra Group was a Czech post-war surrealist formation that became active in the late 1930s, existed illegally during the German Protectorate, and held public exhibits in the late 1940s, before again being banned as an ideologically hostile movement by the Czechoslovak Communist government in 1948. Its core group included writers ZdenÄk Lorenc and LudvÃk Kundera (a cousin of Milan), and artists Josef Istler, MiloÅ¡ KoÅeÄek, Bohdan Lacina, Vilém Reichmann, Václav Tikal, and Václav Zykmund.
Although surrealism was forbidden both by the Fascist Protectorate and the Communist government, it was a highly productive influence in Czech post-war art and literature, and various members of Skupina Ra continued their work even after Socialist Realism became the officially mandated program.
As of November 2022, KVK, OCLC show five copies in North America. Sixth publication of Skupina RA (Group RA), a Czech post-war surrealist formation, issued on the occasion of their first exhibition in Brno, Prague, Bratislava and HradÄc Králové, which contains poems by Lorenc and Kundera, and images of works by Josef Istler, MiloÅ¡ KoÅeÄek, Bohdan Lacina, Vilém Reichmann, Václav Tikal, and Václav Zykmund. Alco contains the group's manifesto, in which it sharply distances itself from "orthodox" pre- war surrealism: "the terrible years of cultural isolation during the Protectorate and the total break from foreign avant-gardes brought about this state of affairs" (cited in Derek Sayer, 2013, p. 405). With two separate lists of works exhibited, at Brno and Hradec Králové, one of them with prices.
The Ra Group was a Czech post-war surrealist formation that became active in the late 1930s, existed illegally during the German Protectorate, and held public exhibits in the late 1940s, before again being banned as an ideologically hostile movement by the Czechoslovak Communist government in 1948. Its core group included writers ZdenÄk Lorenc and LudvÃk Kundera (a cousin of Milan), and artists Josef Istler, MiloÅ¡ KoÅeÄek, Bohdan Lacina, Vilém Reichmann, Václav Tikal, and Václav Zykmund.
Although surrealism was forbidden both by the Fascist Protectorate and the Communist government, it was a highly productive influence in Czech post-war art and literature, and various members of Skupina Ra continued their work even after Socialist Realism became the officially mandated program.
As of November 2022, KVK, OCLC show five copies in North America.
The Ra Group was a Czech post-war surrealist formation that became active in the late 1930s, existed illegally during the German Protectorate, and held public exhibits in the late 1940s, before again being banned as an ideologically hostile movement by the Czechoslovak Communist government in 1948. Its core group included writers ZdenÄk Lorenc and LudvÃk Kundera (a cousin of Milan), and artists Josef Istler, MiloÅ¡ KoÅeÄek, Bohdan Lacina, Vilém Reichmann, Václav Tikal, and Václav Zykmund.
Although surrealism was forbidden both by the Fascist Protectorate and the Communist government, it was a highly productive influence in Czech post-war art and literature, and various members of Skupina Ra continued their work even after Socialist Realism became the officially mandated program.
As of November 2022, KVK, OCLC show five copies in North America. Sixth publication of Skupina RA (Group RA), a Czech post-war surrealist formation, issued on the occasion of their first exhibition in Brno, Prague, Bratislava and HradÄc Králové, which contains poems by Lorenc and Kundera, and images of works by Josef Istler, MiloÅ¡ KoÅeÄek, Bohdan Lacina, Vilém Reichmann, Václav Tikal, and Václav Zykmund. Alco contains the group's manifesto, in which it sharply distances itself from "orthodox" pre- war surrealism: "the terrible years of cultural isolation during the Protectorate and the total break from foreign avant-gardes brought about this state of affairs" (cited in Derek Sayer, 2013, p. 405). With two separate lists of works exhibited, at Brno and Hradec Králové, one of them with prices.
The Ra Group was a Czech post-war surrealist formation that became active in the late 1930s, existed illegally during the German Protectorate, and held public exhibits in the late 1940s, before again being banned as an ideologically hostile movement by the Czechoslovak Communist government in 1948. Its core group included writers ZdenÄk Lorenc and LudvÃk Kundera (a cousin of Milan), and artists Josef Istler, MiloÅ¡ KoÅeÄek, Bohdan Lacina, Vilém Reichmann, Václav Tikal, and Václav Zykmund.
Although surrealism was forbidden both by the Fascist Protectorate and the Communist government, it was a highly productive influence in Czech post-war art and literature, and various members of Skupina Ra continued their work even after Socialist Realism became the officially mandated program.
As of November 2022, KVK, OCLC show five copies in North America.
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- [CZECH SURREALISM - SKUPINA RA] Skupina Ra [Group Ra]
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- Keywords
- avantgarde, avant-garde, modernism, modernist, czech, czechoslovak, interwar, graphic, painting, modern, modernism, art, arts, exhibition, exhibit, surrealism, surrealist, teige, toyen, styrsky, teige
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