Přednáška: Anti-Kitsch, or How to make Socialist Doily [10. března v 19:30]
Long before Pinterest and Etsy, there was Dorka and Praktická žena. In late-socialist Czechoslovakia, women’s magazines taught teaching readers to embroider doilies with folk motifs, resist ‚bourgeois clutter‘, and express their ‚authentic socialist selves‘ through textile handicrafts.
In this talk, I show how the humble doily can be a surprisingly rich window into life under late communism – and why it shouldn’t be understood as kitsch, but quite the opposite: anti-kitsch!
KDE: Kavárna na Boršově
KDY: 10. března 2026 od 19:30