Czech photography of the 20th century : A guide

Contents:
1. Impressionist and Art Nouveau Pictorialism ... 15
2. Documentar and Reportage Photography before 1918 ... 20
3. Purist Pictorialism ... 23
4. From Pictorialism to Modern Photography ... 26
5. Devtsil, Poetism, and Picture Poems ... 29
6. Abstract Photography: The Beginning ... 31
7. New Photographs: Constructivism. Functionalism, and New Objectivity ... 34
8. Amateur Photography of the Twenties and Thirties ... 39
9. Advertising Photography of the Twenties and Thirties ... 42
10. Social Documentary Photography ... 44
11 . Documentary and Reportage Photography, 1918-38 ... 47
12. Imaginative and Surrealist Photography and Collage of the Thirties ... 50
13. The Avant-garde outside Prague ... 55
14. German Photographers in the Bohemian Lands ... 58
15. Portrait Studios in the Twenties, Thirties, and Forties ... 61
16. Documentary and Reportage Photography, 1939-48 ... 63
17. Surrealism of the Forties ... 68
18. Art Photography, 1939-48 ... 71
19. Socialist Realism ... 74
20. Art Photography. 1948-57 ... 77
21. Documentary and Reportage Photography, 1948-57 ... 81
22. Documentary and Reportage Photography, 1958-67 ... 84
23. Art Photography, 1958-69 ... 89
24. Abstraction, Art Informel, Op Art, and Photo-graphics ... 93
25. Staged Photographs in the Sixties ... 96
26. Advertising and Fashion Photography of the Fifties and Sixties ... 98
27. Documentary and Reportage Photographs, 1968-79 ... 99
28. Art Photography of the Seventies and Eighties ... 104
29. Staged Photography of the Seventies ... 109
30. The Happening, Land Art, Conceptual Art, and Body Art ... 112
31. Documentary and Reportage Photography of the Eighties ... 115
32. Staged Photography and Intermedia Art of the Eighties ... 120
33. Documentary and Reportage Photography of the Nineties ... 124
34. The Portrait in the Eighties and Nineties ... 130
35. Staged Photography of the Nineties ... 133
36. Advertising and Fashion Photography of the Nineties ... 136
37. Photography and the Fine Arts ... 137
Twentieth-century Czech Photographs in Dates ... 143
For ftir ther reading on Czech photography of the 20th Centiury ... 158
Photographers with Work in the Exhihition ... 160