František Kupka – Man and Earth (Cambodian rendition – traditional Khmer-style case)
库普卡 – 人与地球

With its scope and meaning, the singular series entitled Man and Earth is the work of one of the most important visual artists of the twentieth century – František Kupka.

This extraordinary publication was produced in a special print run of 333 copies to accompany the eponymous exhibition held at the National Gallery of China in Beijing from 26 July to 23 August 2005. It contains the reproduced cycle of 105 ink drawings entitled Man and Earth in which František Kupka depicts the history of humanity and its culture at the start of the twentieth century to accompany Élisée Reclus’s book L’Homme et la terre. The way in which the chapters are numbered matches the sequence used in the French original published between 1905 and 1908.
The graphic rendering by the leading Chinese artist Shen Shaojun interlinks the globally admired, traditional Chinese art of the Ming Dynasty with Western culture as represented by the Czech Kupka.

Preface: Václav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic; Pavel Dostál, Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic; Vítězslav Grepl, Czech Ambassador to China; Feng Yuan, General Director of the National Gallery of China.
František Kupka’s Biography: Anna Pravdová
František Kupka – Man and Earth: Ludmila Vachtová
 
Nine copies are stored in cases designed in the spirit of the Khmer tradition by the Royal Palace Minister Kong Sam Ol for the exhibition František Kupka – Man and Earth organised and held for His Royal Highness, King Norodom Sihamoni in Cambodia on 11 March 2006. They are made from the wood of the fig trees that grow in the legendary Angkor and are decorated with the royal emblem made of wrought silver.



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