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Marie Sulcova: Prodlouzeny cas Josefa Capka.(The Extended Time of Josef Capek)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...series of biographical novels on the brothers Capek "The Extended Time of Josef Capek." Perhaps we should interpret the word extended...author spent on her work on the brothers Karel and Josef Capek deserves to be crowned with laurels. B. R...
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Toward the Radical Center: A Karel Capek Reader.
Magazine article from: The Nation; 5/7/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...bureaucracies. By the age of 18 Capek was publishing stories written with his brother Josef (none have yet been translated...disjointedness; others, like Capek, seem to sizzle on the...the Insects (1921), Josef and Karel Capek's joint masterpiece...
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Letters from England, translated by Geoffrey Newsome. (At home abroad).
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...brother, the painter and set designer Josef Capek, on The Insect Play (1921), a...introduced the word "robot" (robota: Josef's coinage) into the language...international attention. But if Capek was well-established, the Independent...
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It's getting down to it that counts
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 9/27/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...to it that counts THE GARDENER'S YEAR by Karel Capek, illustrated by Josef Capek, translated by Geoffrey Newsome Claridge Press, L12.99, pp. 208, ISBN 1870626699 Karel Capek, the Czech philosopher, playwright and journalist...
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Polocas nadeji.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 6/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...small area, dealing with a short period in Karel Capek's life when he worked as tutor to the son of...a monumental project on the brothers Karel and Josef Capek, publishing "The Brothers Capek" in 1985 (concerning their childhood and youth...
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OBITUARY: Josef Svoboda Influential Czech stage designer
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; THE CZECH stage designer Josef Svoboda exerted an enormous influence...contribution to the work being performed. Josef Svoboda was born in Caslav in 1920...presented the Prague company in Karel Capek's Insect Play, with sets by Svoboda...
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The (Extra) Ordinary Lives of Josef Skvorecky.(Ordinary Lives)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Queen's Quarterly; 12/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; Ordinary Lives by Josef Skvorecky, translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson (Key Porter Books...than into. I find Jaroslav Hasek's The Good Soldier Svejk or Karel Capek's War with the Newts more enjoyable in German or Hungarian than in...
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Living with Cubism. (exhibition of Czech art at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Washington D.C.) (Decorative Arts)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 7/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...Vincenc Benes, Varclav Spala and Josef Capek, the sculptor Otto Gutfreund, and the architects Josef Gocar, Pavel Janak, Josef Chochol...in Czech work. Bohomil Kubista, Josef Capek (brother of the writer Karel and...
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Sterling Czechs: the role of exiled Czech cartoonists in Britain during the Second World War is often overlooked.
Magazine article from: History Today; 3/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...earliest in the 20th century was Josef Lada (1887-1957), best known...novel Michael, and the writer Josef Capek (1887-1945, brother of the novelist and playwright Karel Capek), was also a distinguished cartoonist...
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"Czech Cubism, 1912-1916" at the Rupertinum, Salzburg. July 21-October 7, 2001.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...artists represented in this exhibition, only Josef Capek (brother of the playwright and novelist Karel (Capek) and Emil Filla are known names in the...distinctive and aesthetically rewarding. (Capek's series of Cubist portraits--many...
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