The study recapitulating and interpreting the work of 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; the editorial commentary and bibliographic list of texts on Arnošt Procházka in the representative selection of the works by Arnošt Procházka - the anthology which draws on the entire extent of the author's critical writings and essays.