DIVUS PRAHA: Karel Stibral, Since when we like wild and desolate sceneries?
Karel Stibral, Since when we like wild and desolate sceneries?

Karel Stibral, Since when we like wild and desolate sceneries?

10.01.2013 18:00

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Čtvrtek 10.01.2012 18:00

From the lecture cycle of the exhibition Tajga/Karel Stibral, Since when we like wild and desolate sceneries?

The lecture will try to explain why we like wild nature and desolate types of sceneries or objects. The sceneries favoured today used to be considered uninteresting or even ugly. Our admiration for rugged rocks or thick wildwood  as well as for the disappearing works of  man in nature is quite recent and based on a new approach towards nature and monuments just as on the change in aesthetic preferences.



Petr Meduna, Bunker Petr Meduna, Ralsko, airport 2 Petr Pokorný, Ponds of Holany Petr Meduna, Bezděz region, baroque chapel of St. Eustach


10.01.2013 18:00
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