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Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century (Financial Times review)

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Tony Barber (FT Europe Editor), "Artistic capital, revived"

"Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century is an erudite, comprehensive, well-illustrated and witty account of Czech art, design, architecture, literature and music in an era – stretching roughly from Czechoslovakia’s creation in 1918 to the end of the second world war – when few in Paris, Berlin, London or even New York would have thought of the Czechs as not being part of western civilisation ...

Sayer cautions that Prague’s modern history exposes “the grand narratives of progress for the childish fairy tales they are”. But in this book he has succeeded in bringing back to life a golden avant-garde era that not long ago was in danger of being written out of history altogether."

For full review see: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/06fba5e0-aeb2-11e2-bdfd-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2SJu5BJeE

 

Period4/05/2013
  • Derek Sayer

Tony Barber (FT Europe Editor), "Artistic capital, revived"

"Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century is an erudite, comprehensive, well-illustrated and witty account of Czech art, design, architecture, literature and music in an era – stretching roughly from Czechoslovakia’s creation in 1918 to the end of the second world war – when few in Paris, Berlin, London or even New York would have thought of the Czechs as not being part of western civilisation ...

Sayer cautions that Prague’s modern history exposes “the grand narratives of progress for the childish fairy tales they are”. But in this book he has succeeded in bringing back to life a golden avant-garde era that not long ago was in danger of being written out of history altogether."

For full review see: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/06fba5e0-aeb2-11e2-bdfd-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2SJu5BJeE

 

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TitleArtistic capital, revived
Media name/outletFinancial Times
Duration/Length/SizeLondon
Date4/05/13
Producer/AuthorTony Barber
PersonsDerek Sayer