The Lost World of Subcarpathian Rus ’ in the Photographs of Rudolf Hůlka

[Kindlerová Rita]

Dear Seelangers,
at the end of August 2014 the Slavonic Library in Prague has published a new interesting book about the former Podkarpatska Rus (Subcarpathian Rus).

Zmizelý svět Podkarpatské Rusi ve fotografiích Rudolfa Hůlky (1887–1961) = The Lost World of Subcarpathian Rus’ in the Photographs of Rudolf Hůlka (1887–1961) / Hana Opleštilová – Lukáš Babka

1st ed. – Prague, 2014 – 291 s. – (Publikace Slovanské knihovny; 74) – ISBN 978-80-7050-630-1

The book published in Czech-English edition presents a selection of photographs from the large collection of visual materials created in the first third of the 20th century by the Czech ministerial official, translator of Ukrainian literature and amateur photographer Rudolf Hůlka (1887–1961). The entire collection, which has been preserved in the depository of the Slavonic Library in Prague, includes more than 4,400 visual materials depicting Subcarpathian Rus’, Slovakia, Moravia, Bohemia and to a lesser extent other parts of Europe and North Africa.

The books consist of three parts: an introductory essay outlining Rudolf Hůlka’s biography, an album containing reproductions of nearly 200 selected photographs mainly from Subcarpathian Rus’ made in the first half of the 1920s and also from other selected geographical areas visited by Hůlka, and a complete catalogue of Hůlka’s visual materials related to Subcarpathian Rus’ containing 1,451 items. The Foreword was written by American librarian, Slavist and art historian Edward Kasinec.

The representative selection of photographs captures all themes and geographic regions captured by Rudolf Hůlka’s camera in Subcarpathian Rus’; they also provide examples of all the materials used during Hůlka’s photographic activities: hand-colored, color and black-and-white glass slides, as well as black-and-white glass and celluloid negatives.

 Price: 420,- CZK
Distribution of the book is provided, besides the Slavonic Library: vydavatelstvi at nkp.cz, by the online bookshop Kosmas.cz:
http://www.kosmas.cz/knihy/197202/zmizely-svet-podkarpatske-rusi-ve-fotografiich-rudolfa-hulky-1887-1961/


Kind regards

Mgr. Rita Kindlerová

Národní knihovna ČR - Slovanská knihovna National Library CR - Slavonic Library

Klementinum 190
110 00 Praha 1
Česká republika/Czech Republic

Tel.: +420 221 663 360
e-mail: rita.kindlerova at nkp.cz
http://www.nkp.cz

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