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CZECHOSLOVAK SOCIETY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

20th SVU World Congress, Washington, D.C.

New Perspectives in Czech and Slovak Studies I:
Modernism in the Czech Lands

Bruce Berglund, Presiding

Kimberley Elman, PhD Cand. in Architecture, Columbia University, New York, NY

   "A Question of Intention: Architecture and Ideology in Zlín, 1924-1938"

Deborah Garfinkle, PhD Cand. in Slavic Literatures, University of Texas

   "Parting Gestures and The Sweet Sorrows of Adieu:

   Manifestations of Guillaume  Apollinaire's Passant du Prague

   in Vitezslav Nezval's ‘Prazsky chodec'"

Alena Janatková, Architecture, Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Leipzig

   "The End of Historicism: Considerations on the Part Played by the Theory

   of Art History in Paradigm Shifts in Architecture"

Thomas Ort, PhD Cand in History, New York University, New York, NY

   "Karel Capek v. Devetsil: Generational Conflict and Cultural Change"

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