“Not for Glory, not for Gain!” The Czech Glass Spartakiad Figurine, 1955
Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference
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This paper looks at the glass figurines of Czech artist Miloslav Klinger, made to commemorate the 1955 Prague Spartakiad, as complex sites of memory, craft and political propaganda.