Slovart Publishing, Ltd. Karol Plicka

Product Description Karol Plicka (1894-1987) was a Renaissance man who became a legend in the world of film, photography, ethnography, folklore, music and literature, and whose name is connected with the establishment of schools of film and photography in Bratislava and Prague. This monograph maps in detail the life and work of this incredible, but at the same time, almost forgotten, personality. He was an explorer and artist, a creator who found his unique style in the world of music and imagery. The book contains rich material showing how Slovakia was depicted in Plicka's photographs and films. The publication is full of Plicka's personal photographs; photographs of the artist whilst working; the correspondence, manuscripts and musical notations; memoirs of his relatives; and photographs from the Plicka's family album. Karol Plicka died in 1987 in Prague, Czech Republic, and left an oeuvre which has no parallel: 40,000 musical notations of folk songs; thousands of negatives from Slovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia, Austria and the United States; four full-length films; a few short films; and many picture publications. A collection in which the past and the present continually overlap. About the Author Marian Pauer, PhDr is a graduate of the Department of Journalism at the Philosofical Faculty of Comenius University in Bratislava where he gained his Doctorate of Philosophy. He has devoted more than four decades to professional photography as a historian, a theorist, and author of 31 publications, a curator of exhibitions and a member of juries for international exhibitions and salons in Slovakia and abroad. Since 1997, he has been an official delegate of the Slovak Republic to the International Federation of Photographic Art (FIAP), a member of the Slovak Photographer Association (ZSF), the Slovak Writers Society and Nonfiction Club of Association of Slovak Writers. He is a Laureate of Egon Erwin Kisch Award for a book The Beatles Photographer published in 2000.