7. October 2025

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.
Lada Hubatová-Vacková
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
Jiří Mocek
Martin Tharp
The Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague in 2025.
667 pages.