The Transformations of Mr. Hadliz - Softcover
Synopsis
Poetry. Art. MR. HADLIZ is a combination of poetry, prose, and art. The twelve pictures that form the cycle were created by "froissage," a method invented by Novak of interpreting crumpled paper. This work by the deceased Czech Surrealist is evidence of his remarkable versatility in phonetic and visual poetry. "Novak ranks among the great solitary figures of Czech art"--Jiri Valoch. "Among these lines the artist hunts down hidden images"--Jo Ann Lewis. "It is clear to the poet's eyes that it's impossible to separate imagination from reality, because the former is just a more beautiful side of the other, its hidden projection behind the external shape of things...[Novak] removes all that is superfluous...to let out the shining miracle trapped inside"--Edouard Jaguer.
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A major retrospective exhibition of Ladislav Novak's work is being held at Prague's Kinsky Palace until the end of July.
About the Author
Ladislav Novak, born in 1925 in Turnov, was a poet and visual artist. From 1941-1944 he studied at Prague's Charles University. Over the next few years he would meet the leading Czech surrealists, and this was to have a lasting impact on his work. In 1954 he moved to the small Moravian town of Trebic to take up a post teaching Czech language at the local Gymnasium. He was to remain here until his death in 1999. As of 1979 he was prohibited by Czechoslovakia's former communist regime from exhibiting and publishing at home. Throughout Europe, however, he had a number of exhibitions and a general retrospective in the U.S. in 1982. Though he did not die "unknown and forgotten," his relative seclusion in Trebic certainly had an effect on the attention and recognition he received for his work, especially in Prague. On the other hand, living detached from Prague's artistic circles gave him the mental space and time to concentrate on systematically developing his own ideas.
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- PublisherTwisted Spoon Press
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 8086264165
- ISBN 13 9788086264165
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages176
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