Portréty T. G. M. od karikatury k ikoně

• Authors: Vít Vlnas

Title variants

EN

Portraits of TGM: from caricature to icon

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The genesis of the official image of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk started immediately towards the end of 1918, on the day when the first Czechoslovak President returned to his homeland. The “hunger” for the statesman’s portraits was principally based on the fact that the visual images of TGM were primarily fixed in Czech public awareness by spiteful caricatures from the period of the Manuscripts of Dvůr Králové and Zelená Hora´s disputes and the so-called Hilsneriáda. For a number of reasons, the depiction of TGM (especially in portrait painting) was the domain for more conservative artists, starting with Masaryk´s contemporaries from the National Theatre generation. Artists professing their allegiance to the avant garde movements, applied themselves to Masaryk´s portrait rather sporadically, although with striking results.

Keywords

EN

Masaryk, Tomáš Garrigue (1850-1937); Czechoslovakia: history 1918-1938; history of modern Czechoslovak visual art; portraits of statesmen

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 116
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 967-989
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Vít Vlnas

• Český časopis historický, redakce, Historický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Prosecká 76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic

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Alena Linhartová

• Český časopis historický, redakce, Historický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Prosecká 76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic