Abstract
Professor of aesthetics František Kovárna (1905-1952) is famous primarily as an art theorist and critic, but he is also the author of several plays, prose and poetry. Range of his cultural activities is therefore considerable, though he is not a well-known personality of Czech intellectual history.
His successful career was crossed first during the Nazi occupation, then in February 1948. He sought exile in Germany, France, then settled in New York.
The anthology presents three previously unpublished art history texts: lecture Questions of contemporary painting, summarizing Kovárnas arguments against abstract painting, torso of upcoming book For native visual language, engaged in Czech art of the 19th century, a study Generation of turnover, which is trying to lay out a course of a generation of young artists exhibiting since the early thirties. The editors Jiří Koukal and Martina Flekačová added preface, Kovarnas biography and bibliography.