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“Not for Glory, not for Gain!” The Czech Glass Spartakiad Figurine, 1955

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Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference
This paper looks at the glass figurines of Czech artist Miloslav Klinger, made to commemorate the 1955 Prague Spartakiad, as complex sites of memory, craft and political propaganda.

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Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference
People
Rebecca Bell
Keywords
glass
craft
Czech
memory
folk
Department: Department for Continuing Education
Date Added: 07/10/2014
Duration: 00:23:51

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