Flying with wax wings: Josef Mánes (1820-1871)

Abstract

"Josef Mánes (1820-1871) was a creator on whom the Czech revivalist society placed its hopes for the creation of a national art. Mánes was a painter, draftsman, decorator, author of models for applied art and architecture, and an enfant terrible ofthe domestic art scene. A disgraced artist but an entertaining companion, he was idealized and profaned in various cultural and political contexts. This volume offers a new perspective on a canonized figure, broadened by the varied voices and approaches of collective authors. Flying with Wax Wings explores the many depictions of Mánes, the result of the research of a collective of authors whose aim was to introduce the key personality of nineteenth-century Czech art in the context of contemporary European art and from the current position of today's art history. The result is a monograph on Josef Mánes that presents not only a complex view of his multifaceted work, but also contextualizes the Czech art scene of the period"--Page [4] of cover.

Contents

Introduction / Pavla Machalíková -- Excursus: Josefina (1855) / Hana Bilavčiková - Václava Antušková -- Josef Mánes Traditional and Modern / Pavla Machalíková -- Excursus: Calendar Panel of the Astronomical Clock at the Old Town Hall in Prague (1865-1866) / Hana Bilavčíková - Václava Antušková -- Universal Models, Local Characteristics, and National Expression / Pavla Machalíková -- Excursus: Meeting of Petrarch and Laura in Avignon in 1327 (1845-1846) / Hana Bilavčíková - Václava Antušková -- A Painter of National Identity? / Petr Šámal -- Excursus: The Říp Region (1863) / Hana Bilavčíková - Václava Antušková -- The Studies of Nature: Between Detailed Observation, Naturphilosophie and Plein Air Modernity / Lada Hubatová-Vacková -- Excursus: Study of a Forest (end of 1860s) / Hana Bilavčíková - Václava Antušková -- Mánes's Work Between the Public and the Private / Veronika Huliková -- Excursus: On a Trip III (1851) / Hana Bilavčíková - Václava Antušková -- Ornament in Mánes's Illustrations and Applied Arts Objects / Markéta Dlábková -- Excursus: Diploma of the Town of Sobotka to František Palacký (1861) / Jana Dřevíkovská -- A Painter in a World of Architecture / Petr Šámal -- Excursus: The Silva Tarouca Coat of Arms (1856) / Hana Bilavčíková - Václava Antušková -- Personality, Image, Style / Roman Prahl -- Excursus: Understanding Josef Mánes's Decline through Archival Documents / Milan Novák -- The Second Life of the Artist and His Work / Markéta Dlábková -- Excursus: Roman Ruins (1870) / Hana Bilavčíková - Václava Antušková -- In Conclusion / Pavla Machalíková -- Excursus: Portrait of Johanna Baroness Kotz of Dobrš (1866) / Hana Bilavčíková - Václava Antušková -- Conservation Survey and Material Examination / Hana Bilavčíková - Václava Antušková -- Chronology / Anežka Mikulcová - Pavla Machalíková