Dr. Hana Navratilova

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Dr. Hana Navratilova
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2. Bibliography

Books (relevant for the topic):

  • Egyptian Revival in Bohemia, 1850-1920, Prague 2003.
  • Českoslovenští vědci v Orientu I-II, Praha 2012-2013, [with A. Junova Mackova, L. Jun, H. Havlujova and W. B. Oerter, Czechoslovak scholar travelers]
  • S diplomatem v Orientu, Praha 2014 [with with A. Junova Mackova, L. Jun, H. Havlujova, A diplomat’s wife in Cairo, 1922-1924].

Articles:

  • Navrátilová, Hana: The Wisdom of Egypt in the Art of František Bílek in: L. Morenz – T. Glück (eds.), Weisheitlich, Exotisch und Uralt. Europäische Konstruktionen Altägyptens, Akten der Tagung zur Ägyptenrezeption in Leipzig, 13. – 15. Feb. 2004, Leipzig 2007
  • Navrátilová, Hana, Modern Pilgrims in Egypt and the Holy Land. A Case Study, in: D. Fortenberry et al. (eds.), Saddling the Dogs, Oxford 2009
  • Navratilova, Hana (with contribution by Jiřina Růžová), Jaroslav Černý in: P. Onderka – A. Jůnová Macková (eds.), Worlds of Jaroslav Cerny – Crossroads of Egyptology, Prague 2010
  • Navrátilová, Hana, Gardiner and graffiti, in: Egyptian and Egyptological documents, archives and libraries, 2010 [2011], Milano
  • Navrátilová, Hana – Ondráš, František, An Amateur Orientalist (in English and Arabic) in: H. Vymazalová – M. Megahed – F. Ondráš (eds.), Echoes of Ancient Egypt, Prague 2011.
  • Fortunes of War [Egyptologists in Cairo], in D. Fortenberry, ed. Souvenirs and New Ideas, Oxford 2013.
  • Hilda Petrie and Czechoslovakia, in P. Onderka - J. Martinkova, eds., In The Shadow in the Pyramid, Prague 2015
  • Austria (with E. Czerny), A. Dodson . Ikram, A. Bednarski, eds. History of Egyptology, forthcoming, Cambridge
  • Czechoslovakia (with A. Junova Mackova), in A. Dodson . Ikram, A. Bednarski, eds. History of Egyptology, forthcoming, Cambridge.

3. Projects (ongoing, related to the subject)

Under the Wing of Memory - Beuron art in Prague: The Beuron school legacy study in Prague churches is a developing project aimed at mapping and interpreting a collection of Beuron art. Although limited in spatial and temporal distribution, Beuron art presented one of the most intriguing integrations of the Egyptian art in a modern context. The Beuron motivation for interest in Ancient Egypt was complex and included qualities and functions of the art as a tool of commemoration, as well as an aesthetic fascination and enchantment with forms and colours. The “Beurons” were deeply interested in the Egyptian principles of capturing the essential and the permanent. Equally strongly, their imagination was captured by the colours and arrangement of scenes. The artists and craftspeople applied some of the Egyptian inspiration in their church paintings as well as in book miniatures and embroidery. Prague incidentally became one of the foci of the Beuron School and several buildings and artefacts of unmistakably and strongly Egyptianising character were produced there between the 1880s and the 1920s.

Jaroslav Černý - beyond a biography: The life story of the Egyptologist Jaroslav Černý may be viewed as experience in overcoming locatedness in scholarship and mentality, without, however, losing meaningful commitments either to one’s institutional and cultural foundation or to the new intellectual and personal connections formed throughout his long international career. Although it would appear to be “only” a story of an Egyptologist, i.e. a specialist in a relatively narrow field, his professional development spanned two World Wars and the Cold War, overcame a number of political and economic limitations and in a rather unobtrusive way introduced new approaches to his subject, whilst creating several bridges over discipline divides and over political divides, despite the complexity - and actually thanks to - multiple loyalties he managed to keep in balance at some cost to himself.

 

4. Main interests (in the subject area)

  • Egyptomania, Egyptophilia, Egyptology, aspects of social and cultural history of study, reinterpretation and consumption of ancient Egypt - toward an ‘undivided history’ of Egyptology
  • History of Egyptology, international research networks, and context
  • Egypt in the art of fin-de-siècle