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The images
on this page show, on the left: the
clock on Old Town Hall in Prague and the
statue of T. G. Masaryk, the
first freely-elected President
of Czechoslovakia (1918-1935); on the
right: a stained glass window from Mátyás Church in Budapest and a statue
of the Virgin from Toporc (circa 1420);
and in the middle: a sign from At the
Golden Horseshoe building in Nerudova Street
in Prague.
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VALENCIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
NATIONAL
ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES SUMMER
INSTITUTE 2001:
THE ART AND CULTURE OF
EASTERN EUROPE: THE CZECH REPUBLIC,
HUNGARY, AND POLAND UNCOVERED AND REDISCOVERED
August 7th-19th
PURPOSE
AND GOALS:
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The purpose of the Institute
was to expose qualified
Valencia Community College Humanities faculty to the history, arts,
and culture of Eastern Europe through
lectures, video presentations, and
readings, followed by two weeks of foreign study in the Czech
Republic, Hungary, and for some faculty, Poland. The Institute was
organized to allow the participants to
incorporate their impressions,
discoveries, and newly-gained knowledge
into their Humanities classes and to share them with colleagues in
order to broaden the range of Humanities instruction at the College. |
WHAT YOU
WILL FIND IN THIS PRESENTATION:
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The following pages contain short comments by the
Director, the Guest Scholar, and the
nine participants
in the Institute
about their experiences in Hungary
(Budapest, Esztergom, Szentendre, and
Pécs), Prague, and Krakow. Each participant's remarks are
accompanied by 6 small photographs showing significant moments and
monuments from the trip. Those small
photographs can be enlarged by clicking
on them: the resulting enlargements
provide titles and short comments.
It is important to note that for
easy navigation the enlarged image can
be clicked to return to the
originating page; this is more
convenient than using the
"Back" button of the browser. To
move from one participant's comments
to another, click on their names in
the stained glass buttons on the
left or right side. To return to this page, click
the "Home" button at the
bottom of each page.
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PARTICIPANTS:
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In the
following pages, the navigation buttons
with the names of the participants were
made from a picture of a stained glass window in
the Jewish Museum in Budapest; the
decorative margins of picture pages show
a statue of St. Stephen from St. Stephen
Cathedral in Budapest, a statue of
Christ from the Benedictine Church at Ják, wings of an altarpiece from
Trencsén (1440-50), Black Madonna from
the "Cubist" house in the Little
Quarter, an Art Nouveau bust from
a Prague house, and an example of
traditional Czech glass. |
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