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{{short description|1940s Czech artistic group}}
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'''Group 42''' ({{langx|cs|Skupina 42}}) was a [[Czech Republic|Czech]] artistic group officially established in 1942 (although its roots date to 1938–1939, forming in 1940).  The group's activity ceased in 1948, but its influence on [[Czech literature]] and Czech art was still evident in further years.
This group was mainly influenced by [[civilism]], [[cubism]], [[futurism (art)|futurism]], [[constructivism (art)|constructivism]], and a bit by [[surrealism]]. Their work revealed a characteristic fascination with technology, evident in their frequent focus on cities, factories, industry, and machines. The human characters are generally common townspeople.
The article ''The World We Live In'' ([[Czech language|Czech]] ''Svět, v němž žijeme'') by Jindřich Chalupecký provided Group 42's primary theoretical foundation.
==Members==
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===Poets===
*[[Ivan Blatný]]
*Jan Hanč
*[[Jiřina Hauková]]
*[[Josef Kainar]]
*[[Jiří Kolář]] (also a visual artist)
===Painters===
*František Gross
*František Hudeček
*[[Jan Kotik (artist)|Jan Kotík]]
*[[Kamil Lhoták]]
*[[Bohumír Matal]]
*Jan Smetana
*Karel Souček
===Carver===
*[[Ladislav Zívr]]
===Photographer===
*[[Miroslav Hák]]
===Theoreticians===
*Jindřich Chalupecký
*[[Jiří Kotalík]]
==References==
*Eva Petrová (ed.) and collective: ''Skupina 42'', Akropolis, Praha 1998, {{ISBN|80-85770-67-9}} {{in lang|cs}}
*Zdeněk Pešat, Eva Petrová (ed.): ''Skupina 42'', Atlantis, Brno 2000, {{ISBN|9788071082095}} {{in lang|cs}}
*Izabela Mroczek: ''Dom, ulica, miasto w poezji czeskiej Grupy 42'', Śląsk, Katowice-Warszawa,  2005 (Polish)
*[[Leszek Engelking]]: ''Codzienność i mit. Poetyka, programy i historia Grupy 42 w kontekstach dwudziestowiecznej awangardy i postawangardy'', Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2005, {{ISBN|83-7171-826-8}} (Polish)
==External links==
*[http://www.praguepost.com/P03/2006/Art/0309/tempo1.php Avant-gardists – A pair of art rebels step into the mainstream], [[Naomi Lindt]], 8.3.2006, [[The Prague Post]]
*[http://www.infofila.cz/new/cteni.php?r=11&c=1855 Legendární Skupina 42], (Josef Fronc), Zpravodaj 2/2005 {{in lang|cs}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120205094033/http://www.jedinak.cz/stranky/txtkotalik.html České diskontinuity], an interview with [[Jiří Kotalík]] at the [http://www.jedinak.cz/ jedinak.cz]  {{in lang|cs}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071102092141/http://gd2.fuud.ujep.cz/skup42.html Example photos of book ''Skupina 42''] {{in lang|cs}}
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