New realisms

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"The multiethnic world of the former Czechoslovakia of the 1920s, '30s, and '40s is a cultural phenomenon all its own. Although most art made during this time in the Czech lands and Slovakia looked to France, there also existed a notable tendency towards new realist approaches that reflected the latest developments in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United States. New realist artists were often members of Czechoslovakia's ethnic minorities, and until recently the linear modernist view of art history has tended to view some of them as outsiders. The collective monograph New Realisms is the first publication to take a comprehensive look at this area of Czech and Slovak art. The result of many years of research, it offers a summary overview of modern realist approaches, showing them to be an alternative to the era's programmatically innovative movements - unique artistic styles, formed by local conditions, that reflected contemporary tendencies in both European and American art." --Back cover