{"id":5401,"date":"2019-05-10T18:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vvp.avu.cz\/o-sesitu\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T13:50:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T12:50:41","slug":"about-notebook","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vvp.avu.cz\/en\/about-notebook\/","title":{"rendered":"About Notebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Notebook for Art, Theory and Related Zones<\/em> (is a peer-reviewed periodical published by the AVU Research Centre that reflects upon recent and contemporary visual art within a broader cultural and theoretical context. In 2023 has been accepted for Scopus database.<\/p>\n

Notebook<\/em> aims to initiate and develop domestic reflections upon art and to contribute to current scholarly debate at the international level. At the core of this endeavour is the publication of specialist academic studies in the humanities and social sciences that examine the current situation of art and live culture in the Czech Republic and abroad. However, Notebook<\/em> also tracks key themes by means of essays, interviews and book reviews. During the first few years of its existence, Notebook included a number of translations of important foreign language texts, a knowledge of which was lacking on the Czech scene. Today, we also publish original English-language studies, while selecting from each issue the most stimulating Czech and Slovak texts, English translations of which are published in a publicly accessible online version on our website.<\/p>\n

Notebook<\/em> is not on principle methodologically defined; it is the point of intersection for diverse approaches to contemporary visual culture and gallery art. The most important criteria are quality, relevance, and the degree to which an article sparks further debate. The original studies offered to the editors for publication undergo a thorough double-blind peer review and careful editing, which emphasises clarity of thought, the logic and coherence of argumentation, and the appropriate use of sources and footnotes.<\/p>\n

In 2019, the AVU Research Centre published an anthology of English translations of the most interesting texts from the first ten years of Notebook named The Se\u0161it Reader. The First Ten Years of Notebook for Art, Theory and Related Zones 2007\u20132017<\/a>. All of these texts are also available online.<\/p>\n

In addition to the original English texts, a crucial step towards making the contents of the journal accessible to an international readership involves translating the two most interesting Czech or Slovak texts from each issue of Notebook and the subsequent publication of these translations online, beginning with issue 29\/2020.<\/p>\n

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Translations published:<\/h2>\n

Milena Bartlov\u00e1 \u2013 Marxist Art History: Directive Model or Radical Inspiration?<\/a> (Notebook 29\/2020<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Marianna Plac\u00e1kov\u00e1 \u2013 The Socialist Nude: Marxism and Photographic Theory in the 1960s<\/a> (Notebook 29\/2020<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Vojt\u011bch M\u00e4rc \u2013 Death by Landscape? Geo-Pathogenic Zones as Architectural and Urbanistic Phenomenon<\/a> (Notebook 30\/2021<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Jozef Koval\u010dik \u2013 Where Do Contemporary Academies\/Art Schools Collide with Artistic Praxis?<\/a> (Notebook 30\/2021<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Karolina Jirkalov\u00e1 \u2013 Housing Estates and Dreams of Living. A study of housing estates undertaken by Ji\u0159\u00ed Musil and his team at the Research Institute for Building and Architecture, 1976\u20121980<\/a> (Notebook 31\/2021<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Eva Novotn\u00e1 \u2013 Sociological Research in the First Half of the 1960s and the First National Housing Debate<\/a> (Notebook 31\/2021<\/a>)<\/p>\n

J\u00e1n Kralovi\u010d \u2013 Actions, Contradictions, Negations. Robert Cyprich\u00b4s Early Work and Experimental Poetry<\/a> (Notebook 32\/2022<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Martin Bla\u017e\u00ed\u010dek \u2013 Radek Pila\u0159 – Dual-Track Video Art<\/a> (Notebook 33\/2022<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Tereza \u0160pinkov\u00e1 \u2013 Becoming-with an Animal: Observations on Contemporary Non-Anthropocentric Tendencies<\/a> (Notebook 34\/2023<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Lenka Vesel\u00e1 \u2013 Notes from the Endocene<\/a> (Notebook 36\/2024<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Jana P\u00edsa\u0159\u00edkov\u00e1 \u2013 Art Doesn\u00b4t Care: Take Care of Art<\/a> (Notebook 37\/2024<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Overview of thematic issues:<\/h2>\n

37\/2024 \u2013 Curatorial Research – guest editors Zuzana Jakalov\u00e1 a Jan Z\u00e1le\u0161\u00e1k<\/a><\/p>\n

35\/2023 \u2013 Exhibitions histories \u2013 editor Pavl\u00edna Morganov\u00e1<\/a><\/p>\n

31\/2021 \u2013 Architecture and the Voice of the People \u2013 guest editor Hubert Guzik<\/a><\/p>\n

29\/2020 \u2013 Reflections upon Marxist Approaches to (the History of) Art \u2013 guest editor Milena Bartlov\u00e1<\/a><\/p>\n

26\/2019 \u2013 Exhibitions histories \u2013 editor Pavl\u00edna Morganov\u00e1<\/a><\/p>\n

25\/2018 \u2013 Exhibitions histories \u2013 editor Pavl\u00edna Morganov\u00e1<\/a><\/p>\n

22\/2017 \u2013 Fine art and film: Siblings or Distant Relatives? \u2013 guest editor Tom\u00e1\u0161 Pospiszyl<\/a><\/p>\n

21\/2016 \u2013 Speculation and Art \u2013 editors V\u00e1clav Magid a Jakub Stejskal<\/a><\/p>\n

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Call for papers:<\/h2>\n

CFP – thematic issue 41\/2026<\/a><\/p>\n

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Practical info:<\/h2>\n