Reminiscences of Jiři Harcuba [electronic resource] : oral history, 1985

Biographical Note

Glass artist.

Scope and Contents

Born Harrochov, Bohemia, artisan family background; childhood apprenticeship as engraver; Prague education, professorship in glass art, 1948-1971; freelance glass and medallic artist, 1971- ; impression of artist's life in pre-World War II, wartime, and socialist Czechoslovakia.

Subjects

• Apprentices.
• Czechoslovakia--Civilization.
• Czechoslovakia--Politics and government.
• Engraved glass.
• Engravers--Interviews.
• Engraving--Themes, motives.
• Glass craft.
• Glassworkers--Interviews.
• Harcuba, Jiří, 1928-2013--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Polsky, Richard M., interviewer.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1985.