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donate Summary of Revolver Revue 71 (2007)
Contemporary poetry in RR 71/2008 is represented by Pavel Kolmacka, fiction by Stanislav Beran and an excerpt from his upcoming novel. Lubomír Martínek entitled his travelogue essay "Undoing the Gordian Knot" which demonstrates that only a well planned journey can result in a change of personality: "And since it is not possible to be everywhere, to embrace, love, and be interested in everything, an integral part of a journey is also a pity over everything missed and a feeling of helplessness over everything that remained unseen and un-understood."
The drawer, sculptor and producer of glass eyes and flies Jitka Havlícková presents her crocheted Memorial to the Automobile, Milan Stary presents a set of linocuts and Jan Dvorák paintings from the turn of the century. René Krása prepared his Metro cycle. Atdhe Mulla photographed Kosovo on the verge of a new era and Viktor Karlík with Karel Cudlín visited the studio of David Cerny. In his Notebook, Frantisek Storm expresses his fascination with the typography of distant India. In a new section devoted to recent work of design studios, Studio Najbrt introduces Josef Koudelka's book. Another new feature is the RR Gallery where a selected curator – this time Jan Cumlivski – presents an exhibition project of his dreams.
"In Lvov there is a monastery of St. Andrew, the patron of hermits and ´hippies´, who wore nothing but his long hair and a beard, there is also a memorial to a ´punk´ – a Cossack ataman, Ivan the Horseshoe, executed by the Poles in the sixteenth century, whose bald head in bronze actually reminds one of a punk, and mainly the statue of Liberty in front of the Museum of Ethnography." – Roman Laube's cycle of nonconformist youth movements in the former socialist countries continues with a block of texts and pictures dealing with the history of the hippie movement and other alternative sub-cultures in Soviet Russia and Ukraine. Dmitri Zakharine analyzes the perception of the feeling of dirtiness and ´touching taboos´ among the Czechs, Germans, Ukrainians and Russians: "The number of young Czech women who wore a nightshirt, panties or pyjamas belonging to their mothers or sisters more than once, for instance, is almost double the number of German women who would never do that. The data show that Czech female students used to sleep in the same bed with their mothers or brothers and sisters much more often than Russian, Ukrainian, and German girls. But sharing bed with a girlfriend is most common among German girls." The cycle Documentarists continues: Adam Gebert presents the work of Jana Sevcíková who made a documentary about the Czechs in the Banat, the Ruthenians in the Romanian mountains, and the homeless in the Danube delta region. Pavel Kalina focused on mandalas which "follow our every step".
What has been happening with our memory it the era of great expansion of mass media, asks Zdenek Vasícek. In the critical Couleur you can also learn about a new book by Petra Hulová, a film by Bohdan Sláma, an exhibition by Michal Rittstein, Morávek's staging of The Cherry Orchard, and much more...
Published 2008-09-08
Original in Czech
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