Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures
ptydepe@umich.eduOffice Information:
phone: 734.764.5355
Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies; CREES Faculty Associates; Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia; WCEE Faculty
Education/Degree:
M.A., Germanic and Slavic Philology, University of Freiburg, Germany, 1971; D.Phil., Germanic and Slavic Philology, University of Koln, Germany, 1981
Highlighted Work and Publications
Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics #20: The Second MIT Meeting
Various
Year of Publication: 2013
Foto/montáž tiskem: Photo/Montage in Print
Jindřich Toman
Photomontage was pioneered as a technique in central Europe in the 1910s, where it flourished as an art form through the end of World War II. While German artists such as John Heartfield, Max Ernst and Hannah Höch used the medium to respond to the atrocities of war, other areas of Europe were simultaneously experiencing a newfound political autonomy as the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed. For these artists, namely Polish and Czech, photomontage manifested itself in a Surrealist approach to cut-and-paste imagery that emphasized its potential for visual poetry. Photo/Montage in Print...
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Kniha v českém kubismu: Czech Cubism and the Book
Jindřich Toman
Publisher: Kant
Year of Publication: 2004
The Magic of a Common Language-Mathesius, Jakobson, Trubetzkoy and the Prague Linguistic Circle
Jindřich Toman
Driven by a desire to create a new basis for the study of language, a heterogeneous group of Czech, Russian, Ukrainian, and German scholars who found themselves in Prague in the mid-1920s launched the profoundly influential Prague Linguistic Circle. This book examines the historical factors that produced the Circle, the basic tenets that it promulgated, and, most important, the social and cultural environment in which the Circle flourished. The study can also be read as an interlocked series of intellectual biographies of the major figures who gave the Prague Circle its direction.The...
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