Publication at Faculty of Education |
2022
Abstract
The present study surveys a hitherto neglected aspect in the historiography of public space in postwar Czechoslovakia. It samples three fi gural monuments of Alois Jirásek to show how the writer's legacy was employed and/or misemployed to fulfi ll the ideological needs of the post-1948 Communist regime.
Apart from illustrating the broader character of statuary representations of Jirásek, the larger-than-life sculptures' conception and commission is put in the context of the contemporary 'Jirásek' promotion campaign which was to constitute an unmistakable building block of the late 1940s to early 1950s political propaganda.