Naděžda Plíšková (6 November 1934 Rozdělov u Kladna - 16 September 1999 Prague) was a Czech printmaker, painter, ceramist, author of sculptural objects and poet.

Life

Naděžda Plíšková studied graphic art at the ''Higher School of Arts and Crafts in Prague'' (1950-1954, prof. Jaroslav Vodrážka) and in 1954-1958 she studied graphic art at the

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(prof. Vladimír Silovský). In 1958-1959 she took a scholarship at the

Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig The Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB) or Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig is one of the oldest art schools in Germany, dating back to 1764. The academy has four colleges specializing in fine arts, graphic design, photography and new media ar ...

(prof. Gerhard Kurt Miller), which she completed with a series of woodcuts for books by

Karel Čapek Karel Čapek (; 9 January 1890 – 25 December 1938) was a Czech writer, playwright, critic and journalist. He has become best known for his science fiction, including his novel '' War with the Newts'' (1936) and play '' R.U.R.'' (''Rossum' ...

. She was then accepted to study painting in the studio of Prof. Karel Souček at the

, where she spent two more honorary years after graduation (1961) and passed the state exam (Prof. Jiří Kotalík). In addition to printmaking, she worked on ceramics, wrote poetry and socialised with artists and theoreticians from the ''Křižovnická School''.''The Křižovnická school of pure humour without jokes'' was an informal pub association of young artists, musicians and writers that met in the now defunct restaurant U Křižovníků in the Prague Old Town. Among its members were: the directors - draughtsman and author of conceptual actions Jan Steklík and sculptor Karel Nepraš, painters Zdeněk Beran, Rudolf Němec, Zbyšek Sion, Otakar Slavík, Antonín Tomalík, graphic artist Naděžda Plíšková, poet and conceptualist Eugen Brikcius, art theoreticians Věra Jirousová and Ivan Martin Jirous, experimental poets Josef Procházka and Vladimír Burda. For the members of Křižovnická school and their friends, collective action was a reliable form of defence. The works created at the time of the greatest flowering of this association, as if on the outskirts of general interest, are today among the values of Czech modern art. In 1964 she married the sculptor and printmaker

Karel Nepraš Karel Nepraš (2 April 1932 – 5 April 2002) was a Czech sculptor, draughtsman, graphic artist and professor at Prague Academy. Already in the 1960s, Nepraš became one of the most prominent Czech artists thanks to his ability to master new mate ...

. Their daughter Karolína Neprašová-Kračková is also an artist. In 1968-1969 she completed a scholarship in

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and had an exhibition there with

Jiří Balcar Jiří Balcar (26 August 1929 – 28 August 1968) was a Czechoslovak graphic artist, painter, illustrator, typographer and cartoonist. He was famous for designing movie posters and book covers. Life Jiří Balcar was born in the family of doctor E ...

. Plíšková has returned to

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occupied by the Warsaw Pact troops. She was offered another scholarship by the

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in November 1969, but was not allowed to go to the

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. After the birth of her daughter (1975) and with limited opportunity to exhibit, she devoted herself mainly to ex libris and writing poetry for

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editions. During

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she had only a few exhibitions in small unofficial galleries. In 1982 she suffered a serious

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, underwent surgery and a long convalescence. After returning from the hospital, in the suffocating atmosphere of the Husák

, she almost resigned to her own work. In 1983, she wrote to Jindřich Chalupecký: "If you only knew how hard it is to get used to the fact that nobody counts on you anymore, and to watch averages, diligent averages, exhibiting, scheming and going merrily on". Plíšková has been a member of Association of Czech Graphic Artists Hollar since 1969. After the fall of the communist regime in 1989, she was a founding member of the free association ''Tolerance'', but her artistic and literary work is clearly marked by her unhappy personal fate until the late 1990s.How to make a marriage:''/ marry twenty-four years/ buy a cookbook/ learn to cook/ learn to understand/ learn to forgive/ and most importantly:/ learn to wait/ wait for everything:/ for a flat/ for a man/ for money/ for coal/ for a plumber/ for the 1st divorce stall'', in: Jan H. Vitvar, How to make a marriage, Respekt, 9. 8. 2019 She died in Prague on 16 September 1999.

Work

Literary work and illustrations

She published her poems and prose from the late 1950s and then especially in the 1970s in

publications - ''Czech Expedition'', ''Spektrum'', ''Vokno'',

Revolver Revue ''Revolver Revue'' is a Czech quarterly literary magazine published in Prague, Czech Republic. The magazine was an underground periodical and issued legally after the Velvet Revolution. History and profile ''Revolver Revue'' was established in ...

Lidové noviny ''Lidové noviny'' (''People's News'', or ''The People's Newspaper'', ) is a daily newspaper published in Prague, the Czech Republic. It is the oldest Czech daily still in print, and a newspaper of record. It is a national news daily covering po ...

, etc. The poetry collection ''Thirteen Poems'' (1982) was also published in

. She is listed in the Toronto Dictionary of Czech Writers (1982). Some of these texts are included in the collection ''Plíšková by alphabet'' (1991). Poems and prose stylized as overheard monologues and restaurant speeches make up the book ''Pub Romanticism'' (1998). The poems collected in the volume ''Plíšková to Herself'' (2000) are mostly reflections on personal relationships, from motherhood and friends' parties to an increasingly strong perception of the loss of love, cruel loneliness, and reflections on the end of life. The posthumously published book contains works from 1997 to 1999, some texts not included in other publications and, in the editorial notes, a transcription of letters to Jindřich Chalupecký. A commentary on some of the author's life milestones is her interview with Andrej Stankovič in

No. 47 of 2001, which was published posthumously at her request.''When God says enough, I'd like to be home in bed...'' (Nikolaj Stankovič talks to Nadia Plíšková, February 1998), Revolver Revue No. 47, 2001, pp. 205–218

Quote

Naděžda Plíšková: ''S U N should shine more at night, there is enough light in the day-time anyway''

Bibliography

* Naděžda Plíšková: ''Plíšková by alphabet'', Prologue by Jan Lopatka, Edition of Writing Artists, vol. 1, 121 p., Dandy Club, Prague 1991, ISBN 80-900352-4-8 * Naděžda Plíšková, ''Pub Romanticism'', New Line Edition, vol. 21, 83 p., Petrov, Brno 1998, ISBN 80-7227-034-6 * Naděžda Plíšková: ''Plíšková to herself'', Poetry edition, vol. 46, 253 p., Torst, Prague 2000, ISBN 80-7215-114-2

Illustrations

* Klement Bochořák, Poems for big children, drawing on the cover, frontispiece by Naděžda Plíšková, Edition Czech Poems, vol. 233, Prague 1964 * Michal Černík, A Life Deciphered, illustration: Naděžda Plíšková, Edition Czech Poems, Prague 1987 * Petr Kovařík, Don't talk to me when I shave, illustration: Naděžda Plíšková, Mladá fronta, Prague 1990. ISBN 80-204-0168-7

Prints and drawings

Naděžda Plíšková already attracted attention with her bravura drawings and graphic sheets at group exhibitions of young artists in the early 1960s. Her work is still relevant today, although the subjects of her best-known works reflect the state of society before 1970. They show her penetrating intelligence, her lively sense of humour and sharp irony, as well as expressing the absurdity of specific life situations. In her first drawings, she still refers to

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and the legacy of

surrealism Surrealism is an art movement, art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike s ...

(''Couple'', 1963, ''The Jealous Beetle'', 1966), but gradually concentrates on ironic reflection on contemporary themes (''On the Subject of Caesar's Thumb'', 1970). Her work from the 1960s was permeated by the invention, hope and perhaps even naivety of a decade that has fundamentally influenced everything that has happened in art since. File:Naděžda Plíšková, Pád Ikarův, suchá jehla, 33x21,5 cm, 1962.jpg, ''The Fall of Icarus', 1962 File:Naděžda Plíšková, Bez názvu (Hlava), suchá jehla, 44x34,5 cm, 60. léta.jpg, No title (''Head''), 1960s File:Naděžda Plíšková, Dvojice, kresba uhlem, 47x35 cm, 1963.jpg, ''Couple'', 1963 File:Naděžda Plíšková, Studie I, suchá jehla, 32x24,5 cm, 1964.jpg, ''Study I'', 1964 File:Naděžda Plíšková, Portrét mého muže (po svatbě), kresba tuší, 37x23 cm, 1964.jpg, ''Portrait of my husband (after marriage)'', ink drawing, 37x23 cm, 1964 Naďa Plíšková could probably be described as a successor to the

Dada Dada () or Dadaism was an anti-establishment art movement that developed in 1915 in the context of the Great War and the earlier anti-art movement. Early centers for dadaism included Zürich and Berlin. Within a few years, the movement had s ...

ists. Her graphic works have their own order, which is, however, prompted by the strange rules governing an absurd world where everything is turned upside down (''Me'', 1970). With her artistic virtuosity, she was able to elevate even banal subjects to a work of art and at the same time relativize the work itself by challenging its destruction (''Little Erotic Box'', 1973). She had an amazing imagination, with which she was able to react with light exaggeration to the unquestionable values of the past (''Mona Lisa'', 1968; ''The Memory of Botticelli'', 1968; ''Hieronymus Bosch's Dice'', 1973) and to relativise everyday situations (''Triptych'', 1967). Plíšková reflected her position as a woman in the predominantly patriarchal society of banned artists and the underground in an original way, e.g. with sarcastic designs from the 1990s for her monument, or a graphic commentary on the promoted ideal of the perfect young female body (''Re-stiching'', 1968). File:Naděžda Plíšková, Dialog, kresba tuší, 42x59 cm, 1967.jpg, ''Dialogue'', ink drawing, 42x59 cm, 1967 File:Naděžda Plíšková, Beze slov, lept, 49,5x64,5 cm, 1968.jpg, ''No comment'', 1968 File:Naděžda Plíšková, Ideal Sauce, lept, 64,5x49,5 cm, 1968.jpg, ''Ideal Sauce'', 1968 File:Naděžda Plíšková, Mona Lisa, dite La Joconda, suchá jehla, 43x30 cm, 1968.jpg, ''Mona Lisa, dite La Joconda'', 1968 File:Naděžda Plíšková, Ošklivý týden, suchá jehla, 39x32 cm, 1969.jpg, ''Ugly Week'', 1969 The mundane situations she observed and explored with analytical detachment may be reminiscent of Western European or American pop art (''Ideal Sauce'', 1968; ''Study for a Painting'', 1968), with which she has been compared by most Czech and foreign critics. Plíšková created a distinctive variety of pop-art without sticking to any paradigm. However, she created its distinctive "European chamber equivalent", without adhering to any models. Had she lived in the Western world, she would probably have naturally aligned herself with artists who responded to the consumer lifestyle with a sharp criticality and at the same time with a distinct sense of expressing the absurd. However, she managed to do the same at least within the local art scene, where she could draw on an environment that was conducive to a distinctive form of Czech Dadaism

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ism (''4 servings of tripe soup across the street'', 1969; ''Proposal for a monument to Karel Nepraš'', 1979) Rather than consumerism, Plíšková thematized Czech beer culture (''10 Gentlemen and 1 Lady'', 1971) and portrayed symbols of socialist everyday life, marked by limited supply. She also ironized the proclaimed social security and a certain standard of living offered to citizens by the normalization regime in exchange for their resignation to dealing with public affairs (''Knedlík základ rodiny / Dumpling the basis of the family'', 1982). According to Petr Rezek, Plíšková's work cannot be placed in the context of Pop Art, because its level of criticality and irony contradicts this classification. File:Naděžda Plíšková, Střelnice (Z cyklu Růže pro Lidice), suchá jehla, 39x49,5 cm, 1975.jpg, ''Shooting range'' (From the series ''Roses for Lidice''), drypoint, 39×49,5 cm, 1975 File:Naděžda Plíšková, Báseň o mrtvém kamarádovi, suchá jehla, 65 x 49,5 cm, 1979.jpg, ''Poem about a Dead Friend'', drypoint, 65 x 49.5 cm, 1979 File:Naděžda Plíšková, Návrh na pomník Karla Nepraše, suchá jehla, 64x50 cm, 1979.jpg, ''Proposal for a monument to Karel Nepraš'', drypoint, 64x50 cm, 1979 File:Naděžda Plíšková, Bez názvu, suchá jehla, 49,5x32,5 cm, 1981.jpg, ''Untitled'', drypoint, 49,5x32,5 cm, 1981, 1981 File:Naděžda Plíšková, Bez názvu, bar. litografie, 42x51,5 cm, 1971.jpg, ''No title'', colour lithography, 42x51,5 cm, 1971 File:Naděžda Plíšková, Velká únava, kombinovaná technika, 49,5x64 cm, 1969-70.jpg, ''The Great Fatigue', 1969–1970 File:Naděžda Plíšková, Malá erotická krabička (Z cyklu erotiáda), kombinovaná technika, 27x45 cm, 1973.jpg, ''Small Erotic Box '' (From the ''Erotiada Series''), 1973 File:Naděžda Plíšková, Polibek, kombinovaná technika, 1981.jpg, ''Kiss'', combined technique, 1981 Naďa Plíšková worked in printmaking using traditional technical means (mostly

drypoint Drypoint is a printmaking technique of the intaglio (printmaking), intaglio family, in which an image is incised into a plate (or "matrix") with a hard-pointed "needle" of sharp metal or diamond point. In principle, the method is practically iden ...

and

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), but with an unconventional vision of reality. Jindřich Chalupecký describes her perception of reality as lyrical sarcasm. "Behind the sarcasm of her prints, all the more cruel because it is uttered with the impersonality of an objective protocol, there is a sensibility facing the barren banality of life." Plíšková exchanged letters with Chalupecký, but she did not accept his sometimes almost mentoring attitude towards her own work or his interpretation of

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's work as an

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artist. In her graphic sheet, for example, she ironized Duchamp's ready-made "

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" as ''Hommage á Karel Nepraš'' (1989). The same feeling of life is reflected in the objects in which she looks with detachment both at herself and at everything that was happening around her and that she had to cope with. At the time of the deepest social marasmus at the beginning of the 1980s, she created works full of bitter humour (''Quadrangular Wheel'', 1980; ''Beer Case'', 1981), but by the early 1990s her work touches more and more on personal themes, and bitterness and loss of hope join the exaggeration in her texts and artworks (drawing ''At the Bottom'', 1990; ''Monument for My Man'', 1992; ''My Monument'', 1997). File:Naděžda Plíšková, Hommage á K.N., Z cyklu erotický rok, suchá jehla, 64,5x49,5 cm, 1989.jpg, ''Hommage á K.N.'', From the ''Erotic year'' series, drypoint, 64,5x49,5 cm, 1989 File:Naděžda Plíšková, kresba, 34x43 cm, 80. léta.jpg, ''Drawing'', 34x43 cm, 1980s File:Naděžda Plíšková, Malá noční kresba, kresba s koláží, 34x42 cm, 1984.jpg, ''Small Night Drawing'', drawing with collage, 34x42 cm, 1984 File:Naděžda Plíšková, Polibek III Gruppensex, suchá jehla, 34x17,5 cm, 1992.jpg, ''Kiss III Gruppensex'', drypoint, 34x17,5 cm, 1992,

School drawings and early works

File:Naděžda Plíšková, studie staré ženy, kresba tužkou, nedatováno.jpg, ''Study of an old woman'', pencil drawing, undated.jpg File:Naděžda Plíšková, Portrét (4), studie, kresba uhlem, nedatováno.jpg, ''Portrait (4)'', study, charcoal drawing, undated., nedatováno File:Naděžda Plíšková, klasifik. práce G II B, suchá jehla, 1952.jpg, Naděžda Plíšková, classified work G II B, drypoint, 1952 File:Naděžda Plíšková, Akt, olej na plátně, 50. léta.jpg, ''Nude'', oil on canvas, 1950s File:Naděžda Plíšková, ilustrace Čapka, dřevořez (2), 1958.jpg, illustration of a book by Čapek, woodcut (2), 1958

Representation in collections

* Library of Congress, Washington D.C. * Musée de l'art contemporaine, Paris * Musée de la Ville de Paris * Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao * Museum Essen * Kunsthalle, Darmstadt * Owens Art Gallery Sackville, New Brunswick *

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* Aleš South Bohemian Gallery in Hluboká nad Vltavou * Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague * Prague City Gallery * Gallery of Modern Art in Roudnice nad Labem * North Bohemian Gallery of Fine Arts in Litoměřice * Regional Gallery in Liberec * Gallery of Fine Arts in Ostrava * Art Gallery Karlovy Vary * Gallery of Fine Arts in Havlíčkův Brod * Gallery of Modern Art in Hradec Králové * Regional Gallery of the Highlands in Jihlava * Gallery of Fine Arts in Hodonin * Museum of Art and Design Benešov * Private collections at home and abroad

Exhibitions

Author´s

* 1967 Gallery of Youth, Mánes, Prague * 1968 Nadezda Pliskova & Jiri Balcar: Grafik, Galerie am Berg, Stuttgart * 1968 Graphics, Small Gallery of the Czechoslovak Writer, Brno * 1970 Graphics, sculptures 1968–1970, Václav Špála Gallery, Prague * 1978 Drawings, graphics, Cabinet of Graphic Arts, Olomouc * 1982 Drawings and graphics, Exhibition Centre Černá Louka, Ostrava * 1993 Revalvace, graphics, drawings, objects, Hollar Gallery, Prague * 1997 Prints, drawings, Regional Gallery, Liberec * 2000 Silence must be cultivated, Montmartre Gallery, Prague, Gambit Gallery, Prague * 2013 Prints, objects, Hollar, Prague

Collective exhibitions abroad (selection)

* 1965 ''Keramik aus 12 ländern'', Internationaler Künstlerclub IKC (Palais Pálffy), Vienna * 1966 ''Junge tschechische Grafik'', Heidelberg * 1967 ''Tschechische Kunst'', Göhrde * 1967 17 tsjechische kunstenaars, Galerie Orez, The Hague * 1968 Kunstamt Wilmersdorf, Berlín * 1968 ''Sex Från Prag'', Konstforum, Norrköping, Stenhusgården, Linköping * 1968 ''VI. Internationale ausstellung Graphik'', Europahaus Wien * 1969 ''Zestien Tsjechische kunstenaars: Dertien grafici en drie keramisten'', Amsterdam * 1969 ''Junge Künstler aus der ČSSR'', Berlin * 1969 ''6 Graveurs de Prague'', Galerie La Hune, Paris * 1969 ''Salon de Mai'', Sales d´Exposition Wilson, Paris * 1969–1970 ''Recent Graphics from Prague'', 12th Floor Gallery, Los Angeles * 1970 ''Graveurs tchécoslovaques contemporains'', Cabinet d'arts graphiques, Genéve * 1971 ''45 zeitgenössische künstler aus der Tschechoslowakei: Malerei, Plastik, Grafik, Glasobjekte, Baukunst'', Cologne * 1971 ''Werken van Tsjechoslowaakse Grafici 1960-1970'', Utrecht * 1973 ''Art tchèque contemporain''. Fribourg * 1978 ''Christchurch Art Festival'', Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch * 1980 ''Die Kunst Osteuropas im 20. Jahrhundert'', Garmisch-Partenkirchen * 1990 ''Image Imprimée de Tchécoslovaquie. Affiche, gravure, illustration'', La Louviere * 1995 ''Grafik tschechischer Künstler'', Bad Steben * 2005 ''Strength and Will: Czech Prints from behind the Iron Curtain'', Anne and Jacques Baruch Collection, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati * 2005 ''Œuvres graphiques des années 60'', Centre tchèque ParisInformation system abART: Naděžda Plíšková - exhibitions
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References

Notes

Sources

Monography

* ''I, Naděžda Plíšková'', text by Mariana Placáková, Museum Kampa - Jan and Meda Mládek Foundation, Prague 2019, ISBN 978-80-87344-49-1

Author catalogues (selection)

* ''Naděžda Plíšková : graphic art'', text by Oleg Sus, Ludmila Vachtová, Čs. spisovatel, Brno 1968 * ''Naděžda Plíšková'', text by Ivan Jirous, Art Centrum, Prague 1969 * ''Naděžda Plíšková : prints, sculptures, drawings'', introduction by Ivan Jirous, Gallery of Fine Arts, Havlíčkův Brod 1970 * ''Naděžda Plíšková : prints - sculptures 1968-1970'', text by Ivan Jirous., Union of Czechoslovak Visual Artists, Prague 1970 * ''Naděžda Plíšková : drawings and prints'', text by František Dvořák, photographs by Ivan Wurm, Jiří Hampl and the photographic workshop of the National Gallery, in: Regional Gallery of Fine Arts, Olomouc 1978 * ''Naděžda Plíšková : prints - drawings - ex libris'', text by František Šmejkal. Prague: Czech Fine Arts Fund, 1981 * ''Naděžda Plíšková : drawings and prints'', text by Jindřich Chalupecký, František Dvořák, František Šmejkal, Milan Weber, Ostrava 1982 * ''Naděžda Plíšková : revalvace : prints, drawings, objects'', Hollar Gallery, Prague 1993 * ''Naděžda Plíšková : prints and objects'', text by Naďa Řeháková, Regional Gallery in Liberec 1997

General monographs

* Luboš Hlaváček, Contemporary graphics (II), Odeon, Prague 1978, pp. 68–69. * Genevieve Bénamou, L'art aujourd'hui en Tchécoslovaquie, 190 p., Genevieve Bénamou (ed.), Goussainville 1979 * František Dvořák, Contemporary ex-libris, Odeon, Prague 1979, pp. 62–63. *

Jindřich Marco Jindřich Marco (10 May 1921 – 20 December 2000) was a Czech photographer and numismatist. As a photographer, he is best known for documenting the state of several central European cities shortly after the Second World War, the hardships of th ...

, About graphic art : a book for collectors and art lovers, Mladá fronta, Prague 1981, pp. 107, 137, 335. * Jindřich Chalupecký, New Art in Bohemia, Edition Ars pictura, vol. 1., 173 p., H&H, Jinočany 1994, ISBN 80-85787-81-4. * Jiří Bouda et al., Czech Graphic Art of the 20th Century, introduction by Jiří Machalický, reprofoto by Roman Maleček, 325 p., Association of Czech Graphic Artists Hollar, Prague 1997, ISBN 80-902405-0-X.

Encyclopaedias, dictionaries

* Dictionary of Czech writers : an attempt to reconstruct the history of Czech literature 1948–1979. Jiří Brabec (ed.) et al., Sixty-Eight Publishers, Toronto 1982, ISBN 0-88781-128-0 * Dictionary of banned authors 1948–1980. Jiří Brabec, Jan Lopatka, Jiří Gruša, Petr Kabeš, Igor Hájek; index compiled by Aleš Zach, 349 p., Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, Prague 1991, ISBN 80-04-25417-9 * SČUG Hollar 1917-1992 : contemporary graphics. František Dvořák et al., 128 p., Union of Czech Artists and Graphic Designers Hollar, Prague 1992, Text in English and German. Variant titles SČUG Hollar / SČUG Hollar 1917-1992 : contemporary graphic art / SČUG Hollar 1917-1992 : zeitgenössische Graphik. * Graphics : Pictorial Encyclopaedia of Czech Graphic Art of the Eighties, 255 p., Concept and introductory text by Simeona Hošková, Central European Gallery and Publishing House, Prague 1993 (Concurrent text and subtitle in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish), ISBN 80-901559-0-1 * New encyclopedia of Czech visual arts. N-F. Ed. Anděla Horová (ed.), 623 p., Academia, Prague 1995, ISBN 80-200-0536-6 * Dictionary of Czech and Slovak Visual Artists 1950–2003. XI. Pau-Pop. Alena Malá (ed.), 252 p., Chagall Art Centre, Ostrava 2003, ISBN 80-86171-16-7

External links

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Naděžda Plíšková in Dictionary of Czech Literature after 1945

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