Jindřich Chalupecký

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Jindřich Chalupecký (12 February 1910 – 19 June 1990) was a Czech art and literary theorist and critic, essayist, art historian and translator. He was the husband of poet Jiřina Hauková.

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1910–1948 Jindřich Chalupecký was born on 12 February 1910 in Prague. His father was a university professor of ophthalmology, author of books such as Heinrich Heine and The Music of Colors. His father died of infectious hepatitis when Jindřich was eight years old, and his mother remarried to his father's assistant, Kamil Fiala. Fiala also worked as a translator from English and French and as a music and literary critic for the magazine Modern revue. Chalupecký became interested in art while studying at the gymnasium on Křemencova Street in Prague. From 1928 to 1932, he studied pedagogy, psychology, literature, French and history of art at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. He attended lectures by Jan Mukařovský, but found no connection between aesthetics as a scientific discipline and the meaning and place of art in the contemporary world. He did not complete his studies. He made his debut in 1930 with articles in the weekly Čin (Action) and the magazines Lumír, Blok, Přítomnost, Listy pro umění a kritiku. He was a teacher and director of a business school, where the painter Zdenek Rykr also worked. In pre-war Czechoslovakia, he was one of the left-wing intellectuals and, in addition to publishing…Citește mai mult

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1948–1968 After the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état, he was labeled a proponent of "decadent art" and lost the opportunity to publish. In 1949, his article Intellectuals under Socialism was published anonymously, abroad describing the cultural wasteland at the very beginning of communist rule. He took a job in the exhibition department of ÚLUV (Center of Folk Art Production), from where he moved to the Textilní tvorba (Textile design) company, and from 1959 he was head of the theoretical department of the Institute of Housing and Clothing Culture in Prague (ÚBOK). Textile art was not subject to ideological supervision by the Communist Party, and Chalupecký was able to travel to exhibitions abroad and had access to books and catalogs of modern art. He made a number of new friends among the younger generation of artists who opposed the aesthetic dogmas of socialist realism. In the 1960s, he retired with the intention of reviewing art, but in the relaxed atmosphere of the mid-decade, he ended up participating in the revolutionary events in the art world. At the 1964 congress of the Union of Czechoslovak Visual Artists, which dismissed the former dogmatic leadership, he was elected a member of the presidium and became…Citește mai mult

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1968–1990 After the occupation of Czechoslovakia in August 1968, he was gradually removed from all his positions. After the publication of the article "All Power to the Workers' Councils", which emerged at the very end of the 1960s and called for the destruction of the "tradition of passivity" and a revolution that would pave the way for pluralism, he was again banned from publishing. He was last allowed to travel abroad in 1969 as a juror at the International Exhibition of Modern Art in Paris. Under the pretext of reconstruction, the Václav Špála Gallery was closed in 1970. In 1970, Chalupecký held two more exhibitions entitled Confrontation in the substitute space of the Galerie Nova at Voršilská Street. The second exhibition was closed the day after it opened under the pretext of heating repairs and he then retired permanently. In the early 1970s, he was able to travel to Moscow, where he followed the activities of local avant-garde artists (Kabakov, Pivovarov, Bulatov, Steinberg, and others). Since 1969, Chalupecký cooperated on exhibitions with Schwarz Gallery in Milan (František Janoušek, 1969, Jiří Kolář, 1972, Ladislav Novák, 1974) and with Baruch Gallery in Chicago (Jiří Balcar, 1979). During normalization in the 1970s and…Citește mai mult

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1967 Antonín Matějček Award 1991 Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk in memoriam, III. class (1991) At the end of his life, Chalupecký agreed that a prize would be awarded in his name to young artists. The prize was initiated by Theodor Pištěk, together with Václav Havel and Jiří Kolář. The Jindřich Chalupecký Award, presented by the Jindřich Chalupecký Society, is the most prestigious award that a Czech artist under the age of 35 can receive.

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Work Chalupecký knew and commented on art from close up, almost from the inside, but without overemphasizing it, he drew on his deep knowledge of philosophy, history, and broader cultural and scientific contexts. He engaged in long discussions with artists, poets, and writers. Visits to their studios and workrooms allowed him to observe their work from an immediate proximity. He was probably the most influential figure in Czech art theory in the second half of the 20th century, a man of strong character, with knowledge spanning a number of fields, who wrote about art in a way that is difficult to imitate and has yet to be surpassed. He himself believed that the purpose of the work of an art critic was not to classify the present in history, but to find words for what vaguely occupies the minds of artists, thereby contributing to the creation of a spiritual environment for them and for those who encounter their work. During the war, in February 1940, he wrote an essay entitled "The World We Live In," which was published at the request of Vladimír Holan in E.F. Burian Theater Magazine Program D 40 and later became a kind of programmatic manifesto…Citește mai mult

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Selected bibliography Smysl moderního umění / The Meaning of Modern Art, Art department of Umělecká beseda, Prague 1944 Veliká příležitost – poznámky k reorganisaci českého výtvarnictví / A Great Opportunity – Notes on the Reorganization of Czech Art, Art department of Umělecká beseda, Prague 1946 Kultura a lid / Culture and People, Družstvo Dílo přátel umění a knihy; Živé dokumenty. Malá řada; vol. 3., 1947

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Richard Weiner, Štorch-Marien, Aventinum, Prague 1947 Mostra d´arte contemporanea cecoslovacca, cat. Galleria delle Scorpione, Trieste 1947 Intelektuál za socialismu / Intellectuals under Socialism, Prague 1949 Politická závěť Františka Halase / The Political Testament of František Halas, Frankfurt am Main 1952 Umění dnes / Art Today, Publishing House of Czechoslovak Visual Artists, Prague 1966 Tschechoslowakische Kunst der Gegenwart, Akademie der Künste Berlin, 1966 Arte contemporanea in Cecoslovacchia, De Luca Editori ďArte, Rome 1969 (with Palma Bucarelli) Il surrealismo eretico di Ladislav Novák, 64 p., Galleria Schwarz, Milan 1974 Marcel Duchamp a osud moderního umění / Marcel Duchamp and the Fate of Modern Art, 1975, samizdat Vladimir Yakovlev, (Gennadiy Aygi, Jindřich Chalupecký), Borgen 1976 O dada, surrealismu a českém umění / On Dada, Surrealism, and Czech Art, 67 pp. Jazzpetit No. 2; supplement to the Jazz bulletin, Jazz Section, Prague 1977 samizdat Cesta Jiřího Koláře / The Journey of Jiří Kolář, 1977, samizdat Tschechoslowakei, Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts. Propyläen Kunstgeschichte, Berlin 1979 Richard Weiner a český expresionismus. Richard Weiner a skupina Le Grand Jeu / Richard Weiner and Czech Expressionism. Richard Weiner and the Le Grand Jeu Groupe, 1979, samizdat Podobizna umělce v moderním věku: Duchampsovské meditace / Portrait of an…Citește mai mult

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Jiří Kolář, Revue K, Alfortville 1987 Na hranicích umění / On the Frontiers of Art, Arkýř, Munich 1987, ISBN 9783922810162, Prostor Prague 1990, ISBN 8085190060 Obhajoba umění / Defense of Art 1934-1948 (samizdat 1988), Československý spisovatel Prague 1991, ISBN 9788020203229 František Janoušek, Odeon Prague 1991, ISBN 8020703284 Expresionisté / Expressionists: Richard Weiner – Jakub Deml – Ladislav Klíma – Strange Hašek , Torst Prague 1992, ISBN 9788085639001 Nové umění v Čechách / New Art in Bohemia (samizdat 1988), published by H+H Jinočany 1994, ISBN 8085787814 Tíha doby / The Weight of Time, (Essays on the temporal context and cultural situations of 1968–1988), Votobia Publishing House, Olomouc 1997, ISBN 8071981753 (paperback) Úděl umělce, (Duchampovské meditace) / The Fate of the Artist, (Duchampian Meditations), Torst, Prague 1998, ISBN 8072150502, A művész sorsa: Duchamp-meditációk, Budapest: Balassi, 2002, ISBN 9635064934 Cestou necestou 1934–1989 / On the Road, Off the Road 1934–1989, Trochtová Z, Rous J, (eds.) published by H+H Jinočany 1994, ISBN 8086022617 Evropa a umění / Europe and Art (completed 1989), Torst Prague 2005, ISBN 8072152645

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Selected articles in magazines Svět, v němž žijeme / The World We Live In, Program D 40, 1939/40, no. 4., 8. 2. 1940, pp. 88–89, reprinted in: Obhajoba umění / Defense of Art, 1991, pp. 68–74; repr. in: České umění / Czech Art 1938–1989, 2001, pp. 35–37. Dvě kapitoly k filozofii architektury / Two Chapters on the Philosophy of Architecture, Život 18, 1942, pp. 60–64 Konec moderní doby / The End of the Modern Era, Listy pro umění a filozofii 1, no. 1 (1946), pp. 7–23; reprinted in: Obhajoba umění / Defense of Art, pp. 155–177; reprinted in: Z dějin českého myšlení o literatuře 1 / From the History of Czech Thought on Literature 1 (1945–1948), Prague 2001, pp. 364–383; repr. in: České umění 1938–1989, 2001, pp. 71–81 Kultura za okupace / Culture under Occupation, Listy pro umění a filozofii / Letters for Art and Philosophy 1, no. 1 (1946), pp. 132–134; reprinted in: Z dějin českého myšlení o literatuře 1 / From the History of Czech Thought on Literature 1 (1945–1948), Prague 2001, pp. 15–19 Básník, charakter, politika / Poet, Character, Politics, Listy pro umění a filozofii / Letters for Art and Philosophy 1, no. 2 (1946), pp. 298–302;…Citește mai mult

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Spellbound by Prague, Cross-Currents 1982 The Leson of Prague, Studio International 196, 1983 No Longer Art, Art Monthly 79, 1984, Sept., pp. 3–5 Marcel Duchamp - A Re-Evaluation, Artibus et Historiae 6, no. 11, 1985, p. 125-136 Les ready-made de Duchamp et la Théorie du symbole, Artibus et Historiae 7, no. 13, 1986, p. 153-163

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Translations Articles by Heidegger, Jaspers and Sartre for the periodical Listy pro umění a filozofii, Søren Kierkegaard for the periodical Život T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land / Pustá země, translation J. Hauková and J. Chalupecký, ed. Stýblo, Prague 1946

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