History & Document

A review volume from the 1996 Symposium on the Renewal of Dobrš, problems concerning the protection and maintenance of historical monuments in the region,. This publication of texts by specialists from the areas of culture and monuments is full of a wide variety of reproductions, photos from research, drawings and maps.

Illustrations by Tomáš Horný (temporarily Tomas Hornley, as he’s living in Melbourne, Australia) accompanied by concise texts by Miles Lewis. Altogether it creates a message about which Horný says: "On the other side of the world they do not build castles on hills. The hills present a threat. They are razed to the ground in the process of colonization. This is the sad history of one such hill in one such colony."

This book illustrates the extinction of the northern Bohemian town of Libkovice, annihilated for the purpose of coal mining. The authors made hundreds of interviews with locals citizens, clerks and politicians and created a multi-layered document. The book is illustrated by the eloquent photography of Ibra Ibrahimovič, altogether a picture of an immature Czech society.