Icons in Czechoslovakia
By: photography by Ladislav Neubert; [translated from the Czech MS by Neil Morris and Simon Pleasance].
Publisher: Hamlyn
Published: 1971
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng; cze
Number of pages: 131
Subjects: Icons -- Czechoslovakia -- Catalogs.
Description: This volume draws attention to the magnificent icons to be found in Czechoslovakia, but which today are half-forgotten by the general public. The influence of city culture in these villages is very small, so that what developed is 'folk-art' icon painting, with lively colours, simplification of composition, strong stylisation and rich ornamentation, characteristics often absent in Russian and Greek icon painting.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [125]-[127]
Issued also in German under title: Ikonen aus der Tschechoslowakei.