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  • 1968
  • collage, paper on cardboard
  • 30 × 21,3 cm
These two collages—each consisting of one contemporary newspaper clipping shaped in accordance with the outline of the author’s hand—are intimately linked with the 66 sheets of “A 1968 Weekly,” which documented the state of Czechoslovak society at the moment of the country’s occupation by the Warsaw Pact armies. This is clearly apparent from the news items and photographs contained in both collages as well from the inclusion of the shape of a hand in several more collages of the “Weekly” (now part of the collection of the Neues Museum Nürnberg). One collage bears the title “Briefly from the World” and sums up news concerning protests against the occupation held abroad, while the other shows the plinth of the St. Wenceslas monument at the center of Prague covered with protest posters bearing the names of prominent Prague Spring personalities. The inclusion of the hand-shape intensifies the documentary character of both works, works that Kolář termed “collage evidence.” K.C.