Author: Oldřich J. Blažíček
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Bohemian Baroque
Author: Robert Rawson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781843838814
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Examines Czech musical culture c. 1600-1750 and the society that created and shaped it
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781843838814
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Examines Czech musical culture c. 1600-1750 and the society that created and shaped it
Baroque Art in Bohemia
Author: Oldřich J. Blažíček
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The Glory of the Baroque in Bohemia
Author: Vít Vlnas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Baroque
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Baroque
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Baroque Art in Bohemia
Author: Camilla L. Hurych
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Czech Reader
Author: Jan Bažant
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822347946
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Frances Starn is a writer living in Berkeley, California. --Book Jacket.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822347946
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Frances Starn is a writer living in Berkeley, California. --Book Jacket.
Czech Philosophy in the XXth Century
Author: Lubomír Nový
Publisher: CRVP
ISBN: 9781565180291
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher: CRVP
ISBN: 9781565180291
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Prague - Czech Republic
Author: Hana Černá
Publisher: Hunter Publishing, Inc
ISBN: 9783886189076
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Annotation Fully colour-illustrated travel guides packed with information on the history and culture of a destination.
Publisher: Hunter Publishing, Inc
ISBN: 9783886189076
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Annotation Fully colour-illustrated travel guides packed with information on the history and culture of a destination.
The Legend of Bohemian Glass
Author: Antonín Langhamer
Publisher: Tigris
ISBN: 8086062112
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
In this book, Antonín Langhamer brings to life the whole depth and breadth of Czech glass achievement. The book covers its entire history, not only artistic, but technical, economic and commercial. His exhaustive glossary at the back is more than just a place to look up terms, but an illuminating narrative on every aspect of glass, from ancient times to the present. The work is illustrated with lush photographs created by outstanding photographers who specialise in capturing the breathtaking beauty unique to glass. In Langhamer's narratives on early times, readers will find fascinating parallels with the behaviour of modern people, nations and industries. Despite its early origins, Bohemian glass took considerable time to reach prominence. Beginning in obscurity, Bohemian glassmakers produced wares that for a long time were good, but not exceptional. Bohemia's history has been turbulent, and readers can draw inspiration from the ingenuity and persistence of those glassmakers who succeeded against overwhelming odds. While World War II was raging, in the midst of shortages of every imaginable material and fuel, a Czech entrepreneur built himself a little glass furnace. Raw materials were hard to come by, so he made do by re-melting crushed bottles. This book is full of many stories of human valour and weakness, the development of technical and artistic marvels, legal harassment, sex discrimination, industrial espionage, and the triumph of ambition over adversity. But it also tells of ordinary people doing their ordinary work throughout their ordinary lives, and thereby achieving something magnificent. Glass affects everyone's life, and everyone's life, in some small way, affects the evolution of glass. Readers will never see glass in the same way again.
Publisher: Tigris
ISBN: 8086062112
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
In this book, Antonín Langhamer brings to life the whole depth and breadth of Czech glass achievement. The book covers its entire history, not only artistic, but technical, economic and commercial. His exhaustive glossary at the back is more than just a place to look up terms, but an illuminating narrative on every aspect of glass, from ancient times to the present. The work is illustrated with lush photographs created by outstanding photographers who specialise in capturing the breathtaking beauty unique to glass. In Langhamer's narratives on early times, readers will find fascinating parallels with the behaviour of modern people, nations and industries. Despite its early origins, Bohemian glass took considerable time to reach prominence. Beginning in obscurity, Bohemian glassmakers produced wares that for a long time were good, but not exceptional. Bohemia's history has been turbulent, and readers can draw inspiration from the ingenuity and persistence of those glassmakers who succeeded against overwhelming odds. While World War II was raging, in the midst of shortages of every imaginable material and fuel, a Czech entrepreneur built himself a little glass furnace. Raw materials were hard to come by, so he made do by re-melting crushed bottles. This book is full of many stories of human valour and weakness, the development of technical and artistic marvels, legal harassment, sex discrimination, industrial espionage, and the triumph of ambition over adversity. But it also tells of ordinary people doing their ordinary work throughout their ordinary lives, and thereby achieving something magnificent. Glass affects everyone's life, and everyone's life, in some small way, affects the evolution of glass. Readers will never see glass in the same way again.
The Czechs and the Lands of the Bohemian Crown
Author: Hugh LeCaine Agnew
Publisher: Hoover Press
ISBN: 0817944923
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 619
Book Description
In this first up-do-date, single volume history of the Czechs, Agnew provides an introduction to the major themes and contours of Czech history for the general reader from prehistory and the first Slavs to the Czech Republic's entry into the European Union."
Publisher: Hoover Press
ISBN: 0817944923
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 619
Book Description
In this first up-do-date, single volume history of the Czechs, Agnew provides an introduction to the major themes and contours of Czech history for the general reader from prehistory and the first Slavs to the Czech Republic's entry into the European Union."
Czechmate
Author: Miloslav Rechcígl
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456714465
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 793
Book Description
These reminiscences are an intimate account of Mila Rechcgls saga, his fascinating life, his varied and successful professional career, and his highly visible public life, encompassing some fifty years, since the earliest childhood in a small hamlet in northeastern rural Bohemia to his government career in the Worlds Capital, Washington, DC and spending his retirement years in active scholarship and voluntary work for non-profit organizations. He views his life as a chess game, in which he confronts various challenges head-on, usually ending with a checkmate in his favor. He describes his idyllic youth at family mill, in an area known as Bohemian paradise, talks fondly of his parents and grandparents, the time he spent in a one-class rural school, followed by eight years in gymnasium in Mlada Boleslav, four during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia and four in the post-War era under the communist threat. After successful escape from communist Czechoslovakia, he immigrates to America, spending his greenhorn years in New York City, working in a glass jewelry factory. He gets a scholarship, is accepted by a prestigious Ivy League school (Cornell) and with skimpy English manages getting his bachelors degree in biochemistry in two and half years, followed by Masters and Ph.D. Gets hired by the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda where he conducts some pioneering research on enzyme turnover and later is offered training in science policy and administration, leading to his appointment as Special Assistant for Nutrition and Health, and later is put in charge of research at the US State Departments Agency for International Development. Beyond the call of duty, he publishes numerous books and in his spare time, devotes energies to organizing an international Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences into a first-class institution and does premier research on immigration history.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456714465
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 793
Book Description
These reminiscences are an intimate account of Mila Rechcgls saga, his fascinating life, his varied and successful professional career, and his highly visible public life, encompassing some fifty years, since the earliest childhood in a small hamlet in northeastern rural Bohemia to his government career in the Worlds Capital, Washington, DC and spending his retirement years in active scholarship and voluntary work for non-profit organizations. He views his life as a chess game, in which he confronts various challenges head-on, usually ending with a checkmate in his favor. He describes his idyllic youth at family mill, in an area known as Bohemian paradise, talks fondly of his parents and grandparents, the time he spent in a one-class rural school, followed by eight years in gymnasium in Mlada Boleslav, four during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia and four in the post-War era under the communist threat. After successful escape from communist Czechoslovakia, he immigrates to America, spending his greenhorn years in New York City, working in a glass jewelry factory. He gets a scholarship, is accepted by a prestigious Ivy League school (Cornell) and with skimpy English manages getting his bachelors degree in biochemistry in two and half years, followed by Masters and Ph.D. Gets hired by the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda where he conducts some pioneering research on enzyme turnover and later is offered training in science policy and administration, leading to his appointment as Special Assistant for Nutrition and Health, and later is put in charge of research at the US State Departments Agency for International Development. Beyond the call of duty, he publishes numerous books and in his spare time, devotes energies to organizing an international Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences into a first-class institution and does premier research on immigration history.