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Tomorrow evening, voice
of America we'll once again
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Iook at Czechoslovakia's
unofficial cultural scene.
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We'll read from Prof. Fábera's
essay on sculptor Bedrich Má ra.
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The in-depth essay was published
in Sculpture magazine last week.
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Prague sculptor Bedrich Má ra
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is an artist the regime
chased into an existential trap.
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Mára's promising career,
which began in the sixties
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with exhibitions in Goteborg,
Salzburg,
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and his last in Madrid in 1970,
is now fading.
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This talent of a generation
found himself completely outside
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the official mainstream,
unable to exhibit his work.
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Bureaucratic power
puts conformists on a pedestal,
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while the best find
themselves at the very bottom.
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Of course we cannot generalize;
There are shinning exceptions.
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For example, art historian
Dr. Magdalena Brecková.
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She and those like her try to
destroy the system from within.