The Vaclav Havel Library Notebooks 2010/1: Jiří Kuběna - Masks, Drawings and Paintings

January 26, 2010

IllustrationThe first volume of the second year of the Vaclav Havel Library Notebooks is a catalogue to the art exhibition of Jiří Kuběna bearing the same name.

The volume also includes, among others, several poems composed by Jiří Kolář, Jiří Kuběna and Václav Havel. Jiří Kuběna is also the author of a detailed Calendarium which shows his relationship to visual art, but also history of meeting his friend Václav Havel and other people born in 1936 - a group of teenagers around young Havel, the 36ers.

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Letter to Gustáv Husák – samizdat essay

„The overall question, then, is this: What profound intellectual and moral impotence will the nation suffer tomorrow, following the castration of its culture today? I fear that the baneful effects on society will outlast by many years the particular political interests that gave rise to them. So much more guilty, in the eyes of history, are those who have sacrificed the country’s spiritual future for the sake of their present power interests.“

Václav Havel:
Letter to Gustáv Husák – samizdat essay
April 8, 1975