This intention is wide open, but it is differentiated through the choice of problems. It brings together a number of selected aspects, giving broad coverage as well as deepened treatment, with the intention of giving a multifaceted and, depending on the aspects, varying picture of Saudek and his photography. The study does not pursue one exclusive thesis, nor is it a traditional art-historical monograph. The first two chapters characterize Saudek’s photography the next two chapters widen the field of problems by considering the person who creates, those who pose and those who watch the last two chapters may be seen as in-depth stud-ies of limited aspects – one of the child motif and one of the relation between image and word. Each chap-ter takes up a specific range of problems: they deal with issues concerning connections between photography and theatre (chapter 1) issues concerning the status of fiction as another world (chapter 2) issues concerning the author’s desire and the desire for an au-thor (chapter 3) issues concerning the function of art as an experimental arena where the subject allows herself/himself to be tried and retried (chapter 4) issues concerning the child motif (chapter 5) issues concerning the relation between visual and verbal facets of Saudek’s work (chapter 6). The thesis deals with Saudek’s photography from the 1960s up to and including the 1990s and comprises six relatively self-contained chapters. Aspects of an Artist’s Work is about the Czech photographer Jan Saudek (b.
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