THE FACE OF A COUNTRY, ARTIA, PRAGUE, 1958

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
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• Publication Date: February 3, 1960
• Content Type: REPORT

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JINDIkICH DIARCO - MIROSLAV I'ETERKA
THE FACE OF A COUNTRY
He who has traversed the earth-felt the
tremendous surge of the ocean, scaled ice-
bound peaks that reach for the stars, and
known the lotus lure of the islands of eternal
spring-at his journey's end turns his steps
gladly homeward. The farther afield he has
roamed and the richer the pattern of his
.experience, the more heartfelt is his joy at
his homecoming.
He wanders through murmuring forests
and quiet glades fragrant with wild strawber-
ries. Rocky heights cleave the skyline above
him and ravines plunge away at his feet. He
clambers by rushing silvery streams and
strolls along the banks of leisurely meander-
ing rivers. He watches the play of sunbeams
in the gleaming mirror of the lakes. He listens
to the sweet sobbing of the ripples and the
crystal thunder of the weirs; the soft air that
fans his cheek is laden with birds' song and
the sibilant whispering of the reeds.
Wherever he goes the past goes with him.
It is indelibly inscribed in architectural forms
-castles and mansions on proud promonto-
ries and cathedrals rising from the dreamy
plains into the blue dome of the skies; the
towns and villages, even nature itself, are
living records of the lives and endeavours of
his ancestors. He is constantly aware of the
contradistinction between ancient and modern
-the villages which cling to the centuries old
traditions of folk art and yet are caught up in
the inexorable whirl of contemporary life;
and the towns in which the past, petrified in
indestructible memorials, joins hands with
the present, exemplified in the work and
pleasure seeking of modern man.
This book presents the impressions made
on the wayfarer by his native land-Czecho-
slovakia. It does not aim at completeness,
but rather. at a selective canvas capturing
atmosphere and conveying the distinctive
quality which renders things and people
unreproducible in time and space.
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THE FACE OF A COUNTRY
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of
Czechoslovakia
IHE FACE
OF A COUNTRY
J. MARCO - M. PETE RKA
Artia
Prague
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Photographs by Jindfich Marco and Miroslav Peterka
Text by Kamil Bednac
Designed by Milos Hrbas
3 1958 by Artia Prague
Printed in Czechoslovakia
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BEHOLD, 1Y COUNTRY!
VERY epoch has its allotted time and intuits the hour that chimes for it, as Charles Baude-
laire wrote in his poems in prose. Not the hour ticked out by the revolving cog-wheels,
I but the pulsating hour of our lives, which strikes a different note for us than for the author
of Les fleurs du mal. Those in our age upon whose ear it falls will name it the hour of universal
understanding.
Are not these words too grandiose for the introduction to a book of photographs? I think not;
these pictures present scenes and people distinct in their individuality and yet in essence having
their counterparts all over the world. The intent and purpose of this volume is not to prove that
the nations are divided by insurmountable barriers arising out of traditions, race, climate and
way of life, but, on the contrary, to show that, because of their fundamental affinity, the nations
can comprehend and understand each other. Its further aim is to demonstrate that the beauty
inherent in a country and its people becomes apparent when seen through eves attuned to aesthetic
appreciation.
Our book is not intended as an exhibition of chauvinistic pride, attributing to one's own country
and nation unrivalled virtues. A national character is of course the pre-condition of all human
character: if a man be not nation-minded he cannot become world-minded. The invisible threads
which tie him to his birthplace can never be severed. These sentiments, however, are a far cry
from chauvinism. Our book is addressed to the reader everywhere and is couched in a new, or
rather a timeless language-a universal tongue composed not of complicated alphabets and differ-
ing combinations of letters, but of the faculty of the eye to perceive beauty, the capacity of the
heart to rejoice at the sight of beauty, and the ability of the mind to serve beauty.
Strangely enough, people seldom realise when they say Turkey, England, Norway or Egypt,
that they are expressing a constant, the one and indivisible earth; the variant lies in the sen-
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timents of the inhabitants. Therefore, when I say Behold my country! that is tantamount to saying
Behold the earth! or the world and all its peoples.
Scenery is one of the innumerable facets that go to make a country. Better expressed, it is not
a facet but a language. We have but to gaze and to listen and in the stillness we can distinguish
the individual words or at least the gist of its message. There are two kinds of scenery: the original,
untamed face of nature which was here before man and will persist after him; and the second,
which man has indelibly stamped with his likeness or, if you like, taught his own language: but
in fact it is one entity, in which the face of man has merged imperceptibly with the face of nature,
and it speaks at one and the same time the language of man and the language of nature.
One of the most beautiful parts of Czechoslovakia is South Bohemia. It is a dreamy, contempla-
tive countryside, a landscape of straight lines stretching to the horizon undisturbed by hill or
valley and broken only by the glinting expanses of the meres-bright eyes reflecting white clouds
by day and the stars at night. It is a serious, thoughtful country and it has produced serious,
thoughtful people. They like to probe to the root of things and this carries them to extremes:
to martyrdom for the sake of truth, typified by the fifteenth century religious reformer, Master
John Huss, who was burned at the stake, and, at the other end of the scale, to scepticism and
sobriety.
Although it has its mountains, too the Giant Mountains in Bohemia and the Tatras in Slovakia
being the highest), Czechoslovakia is not a country of sharp and striking contrasts-neither yawn-
ing abysses, nor soaring peaks, neither a wilderness, nor a tropical paradise, but the soothing
charm of undulating plains and gently rising hills, threaded with silver-ribboned rivers and
streams. The absence of abrupt transitions in their environment has its reflection in the character
of the people. It is a country of moderates typified in the folk proverbs, `'The golden mean is
best" and The world is good, home is best".
Behold, my country! These words would hold no magic, did they not at the same time imply
Behold, here is beauty! A book would be bereft of meaning were it to introduce to the world a
country and a nation devoid of beauty. Ugliness, even commonplaceness, divides; beauty, like
an electric spark, establishes contact. These pages will open up to the reader vistas of beauty
which will seem to him new and exciting, though in reality it is the same beauty that roves the
universe, seen here in a different guise and discovered by the perceptive eye of the photographer.
The reader, taking this book into his hands, will perhaps open it at the photograph captioned
"Autumn, the producer, seeks his Romeo and Juliet" and will exclaim, "Why, that could quite
easily have been taken here!" There will be a certain amount of truth in this, but not the whole
truth. In the rustle of the falling leaves, in the veil-like tracery of the branches, in the whole
tone of the picture, there is a quality which is indefinably and inimitably Czech. It is beauty in
essence and form akin to the beauty of other countries, but seen through Czech eyes. Incidentally,
there are pictures in this book, known as "typical", but it should be stressed that the trait for
which they are thus designated is intrinsic and is diffused in the atmosphere of the whole book.
It is a Czech greeting to readers the world over.
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44 Ordinary people are the creators of wonderful things
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The seat of the Bishops
should ring with prayers
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The glory of old guns
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...but the beauty of old
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The housing of bygone tirnes is not a subject for envy
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 62 Six centuries have passed over this castle
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 Seen through the eyes of modern painting
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68 Sometimes the castle merges with the landscape
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The people-and the nobility
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74 Mansions and castles-once the bastions of power
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152 The daily worries of the housewife
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174 The sculptor in action
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180 I Andersen's illustrator might have come out of one of his stories
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 188 1 Psychology on the stage
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 190 At first sight a singer
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 194 There is no guile in children
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 198 1 The modern conjuror
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1. The Brdy Mountains in central Bohemia
2. Zvfkov in the ~umava
3. View from Hazmburk Castle, in the background Mount }dip
4. A poppy field in bloom in the Moravian Heights
5. The Moravian Heights
6. Krisni Horka Castle near Roinava
7. Dawn over the Luinice
8. Rafts on the Vltava
9. The Elbe at Litomerice
10. Meanders of the Luznice at Suchdol
11. On the Luinice
12. On the Roimberk fish-pond
13. The Svet fish-pond near Trebon
14. The Svet fish-pond
15. Evening on the Roimberk fish-pond
16. A forest in the Ore Mountains
17. Fallow deer in the deer-park at Hluboki Castle
18. Orlice Mountains
19. Winter in the Giant Mountains
20. The Boubin Mountain in the ~umava range
21. In the Beskid Mountains
22. A cottage in the Sumava
23. A cottage in the Beskids
24. The Domica Grotto in the South Slovakian Karst
25. The Prachov Rocks
26. Winter in the Little Fatra Mountains
27. The Giant Mountains near Rokytnice
28. Stalin Peak in the High Tatras
29. The Little Fatras
30. Jested, the highest point in the Jizera Mountains
31. At the foot of the Orlice Mountains
32. Autumn in the Czech Paradise
33. Twilight in the fields, central Bohemia
34. Easter at 2diar in the High Tatras
35. Petrovice in the 2amberk district
36. A cottage in the Orlice Mountains
37. Old 2elezny Brod
38. Lonely hamlet in central Bohemia
39. Spring in the Low Tatras
40. Rataje on the Sizava
41. A view of Telc from the fish-pond
42. The town square at Telc, seen through the castle gate
43. Telc town square
44. The town square at Bardejov with the old Town Hall
45. A fair in the neighbourhood of Keimarok
46. Litomei?ice
47. The National Cemetery at Terezin
48. Tibor
49. Kotnov Castle at Tibor
50. Old Town Gate at Trebon
51. The house called "The Little White Horse" at Tfebon
52. Jindiichuv Hradec with the Vajgar fish-pond
53. The Castle courtyard with arcades at Jindrichuv Hradec
54. The Courtyard at Krumlov Castle
55. View of Krumlov Castle
56. The Hercules Fountain and collegiate church in Ceske Budejovice
57. The Castle Tower in Jindfichuv Hradec
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58. Kutn'a Hora, the Church of St James with the gallery of the Cathedra
of St Barbara
59. Kutni Hera, the Cathedral of St Barbara
60. Kutn'a Hora,.the Italian Manor House
61. KutnA Hora, detail of a Gothic fountain
62 and 63. Karlstejn Castle
64. Kosice, the Renaissance rotunda at the Church of St Elizabeth
65. Cesky Krumlov, steps in the Castle park
66. Tocnik Castle
67. In Hazmburk Castle
68. Spissko Podhradie
69. Orlik Castle
70. Bastion of Krisni Horka Castle near Roznava
71. An old cottage at Sobotka with the Humprecht Chateau
72. Bratislava Castle
73., Bust of Christ the Sufferer from 1520 (National Gallery)
74. Libochovice Chateau
75. Interior of Kynzvart Castle
76. Old Bratislava
77. A modern street in Bratislava
78. On the slopes of the Castle Hill, Bratislava
79. Prague, view of the Castle from the House of the Artists
80. The Castle from the Church of the Knights of the Cross
81. The Charles Bridge in winter
82. The Prague Castle from the Vrtba Garden
83. The main tower of St Vitus's Cathedral
84. Window on the West Front of St Vitus's Cathedral
85. Transept of St Vitus's Cathedral
86. A concert of church music in St Vitus's Cathedral
87. Golden Alley, Hradcany
88. Salla terrena of the Wallenstein Palace
89. The Church of St Nicholas from the Vrtba Garden
90. Clock tower of the Church of St Nicholas in the Little Quarter
91. The Astronomical Clock, Old Town Hall
92. Tyn Church
93. The Huss memorial, in the background Tyn Church
94. Autumn on Kampa Island, with the Charles Bridge
95. View of Prague from the "Naplavka"
96. Evening on the Charles Bridge
97. Autumn on the Vltava
98. "The Two Little Bears" house, birthplace of E. E. Kisch, the famous
Prague journalist and writer
99. The National Theatre
100. The Old Jewish Cemetery
101. The Old Jewish Cemetery
102. Flight of steps and sculptures at Troja Mansion
103. Fountain with dolphins in the Old Town Square
104. Mozart's Prague home-Bertramka
105. Crossroads at the National Theatre in the evening
106. The Church of St Nicholas floodlit
107. Charles Bridge floodlit
108. Bridge Tower of the Little Quarter at night
109. An evening concert on the Vltava
110. Carved beehives in the Beskids
1 1 1. Old countrywoman
112. Deep ploughing
113. Cutter and binder
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114. The Str'ainice Festival
115. Highlander from the Tatras
.116. The Orlice Mountains in springtime
117. Vintage (Libechov on the Elbe)
118. Potato lifting
119. Loading sugar beet
120. Work in a rice field on rZitny Island
121. A flock of sheep in the road near Fricovice
122. Sorting tobacco
123. Smichov brewery yard
124. Old paper mill at Velke Losiny
125. A miniature edition of the Koran printed at Vimperk
126. Czech glass in the making
127. Producing cut glass
128 and 129. Manufacture of musical instruments at Kraslice
130 and 131. Manufacture of pure silk
132. Assistant in a biochemical laboratory
133. Manufacture of artificial jewellery at Jablonec
134. The building faculty at the Prague Technical School
135. Inside a 8koda car
136. Ore mines at Pribram
137. Ore mines at Pribram
138.. View of Ostrava
139. A mineral spring at Frantiskovy Lazne
140.MariAnsk6 Lazne
141. Foreign visitors at Karlstejn
142. Skiing in the Giant Mountains
143. Hiking in the Beskids
144. Hurdles
145. Emil Zitopek
146. A football match on the LetnA Heights
147. A motorcycle road race
148. Frantisek Hadac, world champion archer
149. Autumn hunt
150. Returning from the hunt
151. Shot laid out
152. Shopping in a Prague food-store
153. A Prague bus
154. In the rain
155. The recreation ground
156. At the ball
157. Dancing in an Old Prague beer cellar
158. Early morning in a Prague street
159. One of Prague's many passages
160. Over a glass of Czech beer
161. Wenceslas Square at night
162. Prague airport
163. Prague airport
164. Autumn in the Czech Paradise
165. Baroque sculpture in the Castle grounds at Cesky Krumlov
166. South Bohemian Gothic Madonna
167. Baroque statue of St Christopher from southern Bohemia
168. The statue March in the Veltrusy Mansion park
169. Fountain at Olomouc
170. Saturn's hearth at Libochovice Mansion
171. The Boiena Nemcova memorial by Karel Pokorny in Prague
172. Statue of Jan 22iika on Vitkov
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173. Stursa's Eva
174. Karel Pokorny, National Artist
175. The School of Ceramics in Prague
176. Ceramic kiln at the Industrial Art College in Prague
177. Statue from the Zbraslav gallery
178. The National Gallery at Zbraslav
179. The National Gallery at Zbraslav
180. Cyril Bouda, graphic artist
181. Printing etchings on the hand-press at the Prague Academy of Art
182. The Vyshi Brod Madonna, National Gallery
183. Restoration work on a wall of the Prague Castle
184. The art lesson
185. Prague bookshop
186. The Unversity Library
187. The University Libarry
188. Scene from Mother Courage by Brecht
189. Eduard Kohout, member of the National Theatre in Prague, in the
role of Colonel Chabert
190. Slavka Prochizkova, member of the National Theatre opera com-
pany in Prague, in the role of Macenka in Smetana's opera, The
Bartered Bride
191. Scene from the ballet, Spartacus, by Aram Khatchaturian at the
National Theatre
192. Vycpalek Folk Dance Company
193. A performance of Dvoiak's opera, Rusalka, at the Municipal Puppet
Theatre at Kladno
194. Children learning an old folk dance
195. Children learning an old folk dance
196. Barrandov Film Studios
197. The Moravian Teachers' Choir in the Pantheon of the National
Museum in Prague
198. Mravinskij conducting at the Prague Spring music festival
199. Vronski and Babin performing at the Prague Spring music festival
200. Summer concert in the Strahov Monastery garden
201. The Choir of the Czechoslovak Radio in St Vitus's Cathedral
202. Listening to a concert in the garden of Queen Anne's Pavilion
203. Sunset over the Prague Castle
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