Surrealism and Photography in Czechoslovakia

Krzysztof Fijalkowski is Senior Lecturer, Fine Art, Norwich University of the Arts. Michael Richardson is Visiting Fellow, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London and was recently Visiting Professor in the Centre for Global Studies, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. Ian Walker is Reader in the History of Photography, University of Wales, Newport.

• Contents: Introduction; Years of long days: surrealism in Czechoslovakia, Michael Richardson and Krzysztof Fijalkowski; Photo analysis A: poetry, revolution and the city, Krzysztof Fijalkowski; Jindrich Å tyrský and Czech surrealist photography in the 1930s, Ian Walker; Photo analysis B: Paris Afternoon, Ian Walker; Between photograph and poem: Å tyrský and Heisler’s On the Needles of these Days, Ian Walker; Photo analysis C: impossible objects, Krzysztof Fijalkowsi; Objective poetry: post-war Czech surrealist photography and the everyday, Krzysztof Fijalkowski; Photo analysis D: In the Courtyard, Michael Richardson; Emila Medková, the magic of despair, Krzysztof Fijalkowsi; Photo analysis E: At The castle of La Coste, Michael Richardson; ’Island beacons in the sea of reality’: the photographic cycles of Vilém Reichmann and Jírí Sever, Ian Walker; Photo analysis F: J.S. Bach: Fantasia in G Minor, Ian Walker; Complementary knowledge: photography in the contemporary group of Czech-Slovak surrealists, Krzysztof Fijalkowski and Michael Richardson; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

'The authors all have deep backgrounds in the study of Surrealism and photography and their contributions weave together in seamlessly ... those who read it will find its pages "very rich for eyes."' Rain Taxi Review of Books