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The founding of Det Kongelige Danske skildre- bildhugger og Bygnings akademi marks a watershed in the education of Danish architects, and a renewal in architectural production between the 18th and 19th centuries. Throughout the two centuries, a young Danish architect's formative experience is linked to study at the Academy, which, on a continuous basis, updates, conforms and takes part in contemporary diatribes, theories and speculations. The volume reconstructs the paths and investigations made in Italy by Danish stipendiaries and their participation in contemporary debates. What emerges is a Copenhagense society strongly linked to the Peninsula; in fact, traveler-architects between the 18th and 19th centuries identified Italian buildings as having national identity roots. Thanks to largely unpublished archival material, we come to understand the fascination that Italy has on Danish travelers, who will continually attempt to recreate a Lidt Italien in the cold Nordic lands. La fondazione della Det Kongelige Danske skildre- bildhugger og Bygnings akademi segna uno spartiacque nella formazione degli architetti danesi, e un rinnovamento nella produzione architettonica tra il XVIII e XIX secolo. Durante i due secoli, l’esperienza formativa di un giovane architetto danese è legata allo studio presso l’Accademia, la quale, in modo continuo, si aggiorna, si conforma e prende parte alle diatribe, alle teorie e alle speculazioni coeve. Il volume ricostruisce i percorsi e le indagini effettuate in Italia dagli stipendiati danesi e la partecipazione ai dibattiti della contemporaneità. Ne emerge una società copenhagense fortemente legata alla Penisola, infatti i viaggiatori- architetti tra Settecento e Ottocento individuano nelle costruzioni italiane delle radici identitarie nazionali. Grazie al materiale d’archivio in gran parte inedito, si giunge a comprendere la fascinazione che l’Italia ha sui viaggiatori danesi, i quali tenteranno continuamente di ricreare una Lidt Italien nelle fredde terre nordich.

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Gauguin, Paul, --- Art Institute of Chicago --- Gaogeng, Baoluo, --- Gauguin, Eugène Henri Paul, --- Gauguin, Pablo, --- Гоген, Поль, --- Gogen, Polʹ, --- גוגן, פול, --- Chicago. Art Institute --- Art Institute Chicago --- Musée de Chicago --- Shikago Bijutsukan --- Chicago Academy of Fine Arts (1879-1882)

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In The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare gave the landlocked country of Bohemia a coastline--a famous and, to Czechs, typical example of foreigners' ignorance of the Czech homeland. Although the lands that were once the Kingdom of Bohemia lie at the heart of Europe, Czechs are usually encountered only in the margins of other people's stories. In The Coasts of Bohemia, Derek Sayer reverses this perspective. He presents a comprehensive and long-needed history of the Czech people that is also a remarkably original history of modern Europe, told from its uneasy center. Sayer shows that Bohemia has long been a theater of European conflict. It has been a cradle of Protestantism and a bulwark of the Counter-Reformation; an Austrian imperial province and a proudly Slavic national state; the most easterly democracy in Europe; and a westerly outlier of the Soviet bloc. The complexities of its location have given rise to profound (and often profoundly comic) reflections on the modern condition. Franz Kafka, Jaroslav Hasek, Karel Capek and Milan Kundera are all products of its spirit of place. Sayer describes how Bohemia's ambiguities and contradictions are those of Europe itself, and he considers the ironies of viewing Europe, the West, and modernity from the vantage point of a country that has been too often ignored. The Coasts of Bohemia draws on an enormous array of literary, musical, visual, and documentary sources ranging from banknotes to statues, museum displays to school textbooks, funeral orations to operatic stage-sets, murals in subway stations to censors' indexes of banned books. It brings us into intimate contact with the ever changing details of daily life--the street names and facades of buildings, the heroes figured on postage stamps--that have created and recreated a sense of what it is to be Czech. Sayer's sustained concern with questions of identity, memory, and power place the book at the heart of contemporary intellectual debate. It is an extraordinary story, beautifully told.

Bohemia (Czech Republic) --- Czech Republic --- History. --- History --- Czech Republic - History. --- Česká republika --- ČR --- Tschechische Republik --- Česko --- Czechia --- チェコ --- Cheko --- チェコ共和国 --- Cheko Kyōwakoku --- Tschechien --- Tschechenland --- Tschechei --- République tchèque --- República Checa --- Chequia --- Txèquia‏ --- Txeca --- República Txeca --- Češka --- Czech Socialist Republic (Czechoslovakia) --- Czechoslovakia --- Czech Republic. --- HISTORY / Europe / Eastern. --- Academy of Fine Arts. --- Agrarian party. --- Babička (Němcová). --- Bata company. --- Brno. --- Germanization. --- Gothic architecture. --- Halas, František. --- Hussites. --- Jews. --- Moravia. --- Nazis. --- advertisements. --- bourgeoisie. --- cafés. --- camps. --- censorship. --- children’s books. --- colonization. --- communism. --- coronations. --- democracy. --- economy. --- elections. --- ethnicity. --- fascism. --- film. --- functionalism. --- historiography. --- identity. --- illustration. --- land. --- monumentalism. --- opera. --- parliaments. --- peasants. --- poetry. --- Česká moderna. --- Bohemia