Day 2 (Wed 2nd June), 19:30: Record of Bohuslav Martinů´s opera The Three Wishes
The record is not available yet.
Introduction by Helena Spurná, Department of the Theory and History of Fine Arts, University of Ostrava
Here you will find all the continuously updated information about off programme, which is divided into the following sections:
Day 1 (Tue 1st June), 19:00: Historiography of the Avant-garde and fifty years´ experience of Avantgarde research in France
Interview with Professor Henri Béhar, on of the founders of the avant-garde research in France
Day 2 (Wed 2nd June), 19:30: Record of Bohuslav Martinů´s opera The Three Wishes
Introduction by Helena Spurná, Department of the Theory and History of Fine Arts, University of Ostrava
Day 3 (Thu 3rd June), 19:30: Toyen, The Dreaming Rebel
Introduction to the exhibition with Curator Anna Pravdová (The National Gallery Prague, the Hamburg Kunsthalle and the Museé d´Art Moderne de Paris).
Day 1 (Tue 1st June), 19:00: Historiography of the Avant-garde and fifty years experience of Avantgarde research in France
The interview will be available throughout the conference.
Interview with Professor Henri Béhar, on of the founders of the avant-garde research in France.
Henri Béhar is one of the greatest specialists of the Avantgardes – a biographer of Tristan Tzara, André Breton, Alfred Jarry or Roger Vitrac, founder of the Centre de Recherches sur le Surréalisme at the University Paris III and director of the journal Mélusine published by this Centre. He is also the author of the first monograph dedicated to Dada and Surrealist theatre: Etude sur le théâtre dada et surréaliste, first published in 1967.
Professor Béhar is interviewed by Mariana Orawczak Kunešová.
The record will be published here at the time of the off-program and will be accessible for the duration of the conference.
Day 3 (Thu 3rd June), 19:30: Toyen, The Dreaming Rebel
Anna Pravdová, will introduce us to the exhibition Toyen: The Dreaming Rebel (link can be found here), actually on display at the Wallenstein Riding Hall in Prague, which she co-curated with Annie Le Brun and Annabelle Görgen-Lammers.
Anna Pravdová is an art historian and curator of the Collection of Modern Art at the National Gallery in Prague. She holds a PhD in Art History from Charles University in Prague and the University Paris I – Sorbonne for her research on Czech artists in France from 1918-1945. She is the author of several monographs, catalogs, and studies concerning Czech artists living abroad and Czech-French relations in art and culture. She has curated a series of exhibitions on this topic, for example Jiří Kolář & Beatrice Bizot / Correspondage (2012); Jan Křížek (1919-1985) and the Paris Art Scene in the 1950s (2013); Caught by the Night: Czechs Artists in France 1938-1945 (2015), František Kupka (2018); Bonjour, Monsieur Gauguin, Czech artists in Britanny 1850-1950 (2018); Josef Šíma: The Road to Le Grand Jeu (2019); Toyen: The Dreaming Rebel (2021).
In 2015, she was a Fulbright Research Scholar at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she conducted research on Czech artists in the United States during WWII. Recently, she authored two monographs: Jan Křížek (1919-1985): The Human Must Be There and Senorita Franco and the Bloody Hound: The Painter, Cartoonist, and Illustrator Antonín Pelc (1895–1967) (co-edited with Tomáš Winter). Anna’s research interests include art history of the twenty century in the social and historical contexts.
