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Article: Milada Maresova and the absence of women in Czech art history: the least well-known area of Czech modern art history regards the artwork and lives of Czech female artists.(CULTURE)(Report)
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- The New Presence: The Prague Journal of Central European Affairs
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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MODERNISM AND THE WRITING OF ART HISTORY
Since 1989, the domestic history of art has been concerned with various problems which were previously inconvenient to academic discussions of socialist art history, or which were interpreted mainly through eyes tainted by vulgar cultural policies. In the last twenty years, Czech modern art has come under more scrutiny than almost ever before. Due to both publications and exhibitions, Czech modernist art is now a well-known phenomenon amidst the world's art community. Even so, some areas remain overlooked. Czech modern art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century continues to be associated with those artists who ...