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    By the Head and by the Hands
    The School of Arts and Crafts in Brno 1924–2024

    Date of publishing

    7. October 2025

    Description

    How did modern art and design emerge in Brno, and what were the methods for arts-and-crafts education? This publication captures the century-long story of one Central European school that combined local folkloric traditions with the experimental artistic avant-garde, servility to political establishments with daring intellectual freedom, traditional craft skills with new media. The outcome of a project of team research, it presents many original scholarly studies along with previously unknown visual materials.

    Concept, editing

    Lada Hubatová-Vacková

    Texts

    Lukáš Bártl, David Bláha, Valéria Bláha, Andrea Březinová, Sandra Dittenberger, Lada Hubatová-Vacková, Jindřich Chatrný, Petr Ingerle, Barbora Klímová, Dagmar Koudelková, Iva Knobloch, Kateřina Kuthanová, Johana Lomová, Vojtěch Märc, Hans Stefan Moritsch, Alexandra Panzert, Pavla Pečinková, Terezie Petišková, Julia Pintsuk-Christof, Veronika Rollová, Marta Sylvestrová, Tomáš Zapletal

    Graphic design and typesetting

    Jiří Mocek

    Translation into English

    Martin Tharp

    Published by

    The Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague in 2025.
    667 pages.