V + W and Ježek
posted by Karla at 9:46 PM
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
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5 Comments:
The Jezek family grave wins--hands down.
Why do you say that?
It's simply more aesthetically pleasing to this woman who spent her teenage years haunting graveyards.
Oh, um, and a good portion of her twenties photographing them.
Well, I too have spent a good deal of time photographing graveyards, and I have to disagree on this. Nothing wrong with the Ježek family grave, but it is extremely conventional, which may suit Ježek's parents but says nothing about Ježek the modernist and jazz composer, who was even a founding member of the Prague surrealist group.
While I don't know that the Voskovec and Werich stones are my favorite Czech tombstones (Czech graves can be very creative), they relate to the aesthetic of posters done for V+W's most famous work, the Liberated Theater. I also like the fact that V+W are brought back together in death after being separated by postwar politics.
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