Abstract
Arnošt Procházka (1869-1925) - the literary, art and theatre critic, aestheticist and essayist, translator, poet and author, pioneering bibliophile and collector - was one of the key nineteenth- and twentieth-century representatives of the modern conception of art and of the new concept of creative individuality within the Czech context. This representative selection of the works by Arnošt Procházka embodies his writings from 1892 to 1924.
The anthology includes almost two hundred texts presenting the constants as well as transformations of his critical and essayist texts, their character and singular nature, their thematic and stylistic scope - essays of a programmatic nature as well as aesthetic contemplations, portraits and profiles of modernist writers and artists, literary, art and theatre critiques and polemical texts, as well as the occasional articles and commentaries of a socio-political nature.