The book is the story of the sculptural community that emerged around Karel Nepraš at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in the 1990s, and a reflection on sculpture itself in an age of great change. Several dozen students passed through Nepraš’s school in two stages, first as the Old Bunch, later as the Lesbian School. As one of them aptly remarked, there was almost no leaving Karel Nepraš’s studio, such was the idyll there.

All the texts (descriptions of daily sculptural practice in the studio, factual information) are framed by memories and interviews with students, colleagues and friends of Karel Nepraš. The rich pictorial material presents the sculptural approach of Professor Nepraš, his assistants and pupils.

“Nepraš’s sculpture school has become a concept beyond the confines of the art discipline itself, say as a spontaneously crystallized social experiment based on trust between teacher and students.” Petr Vaňous wrote in his review of the book, which he perceives as two-pronged: “The portrait of Karel Nepraš as a sculptural ‘legend’, a bohemian personality who never lost doubts about the mortal seriousness of his academic mission under his professorial gown, is complemented by an ‘army of Nepraš’s pupils.”

Karel Nepraš – Jiří Plieštik – Karel Bartáček – Simona Blahutová – Filomena Borecká – Lukáš Bravenec – Jan Cileček – Klára Čulíková (Langová) – Pavel Doskočil – Jana Doubková – Gabriela Lásková (Egemová) – Michal Fejfar – Martina Hozová – Martina Chloupa – Zdeněk Chmelař – Klára Klose – Rebeka Kloudová (Kočí) – Martina Niubó-Klouzová – Kateřina Kociánová – Markéta Korečková – Lenka Kortánková – Filip Kudrnáč – Alžběta Kumstátová – Ján Macko – Aleš Makarenko – Václav Mandelík – Tomáš Martinák – MICL – Michal Novotný – Vít Novotný – Miroslav Pánek – Jan Pospíšil – Vlasta Samohrdová – Paulina Skavová – Martin Slovák – Martin Šohajek – Benedikt Tolar – Tomáš Vejdovský – Lukáš Wagner.

The book is available only in Czech.

590 CZK

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