Thinking through the image

Titel: Thinking through the image : the visual events of Miroslav Petříček / Jitka Hlaváčková (ed.) ; [texts: Milena Bartlová, Jitka Hlaváčková, Václav Janoščík, Miroslav Petříček, Jiří Přibáň]
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Ausgabe: 1st edition
Veröffentlicht: Prague : Prague City Gallery, 2023
Umfang: 149 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 28 cm
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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Andere Ausgaben: Übersetzung von tschechisch: Myšlení obrazem: vizuální události Miroslava Petříčka
ISBN: 9788070101957 ; 8070101954
Bemerkung: Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Thinking Through the Image: The Visual Events of Miroslav Petříček", held from 4 October 2023 to 28 January 2024 at Prague City Gallery - Municipal Library, 2nd floor
Print run: 200
Zusammenfassung: Miroslav Petříček is a leading Czech philosopher and aesthetician who has been systematically reflecting on visual art for decades. He has summarised his thoughts on aspects of the language of art in a number of texts, including his book Thinking through Images, which became the main stimulus for this exhibition. Our most important aim is to highlight Miroslav Petříček’s fundamental contribution to the development of Czech visual art and to attempt to illustrate the key ideas underlying his philosophical discourse. The basis is his statement that an encounter with an image is an event