Academy of Fine Arts and Design

Local nameVysoká škola výtvarných umení
LocationBratislava, Slovakia

The Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava is an academy in Bratislava, Slovakia.

It was founded in 1949 at the dawn of totalitarian regime in the former Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. For next forty years, the institution was under the pressure of political doctrine promoting so-called socialist realism in arts, as well as suffering the political purges affecting badly the whole society. In spite of troubled historical development and atmosphere of repression, at AFAD there were few spheres of so-called “positive deviation”. The resistance to the orthodoxy of socialist realism was made possible thanks to the intellectual and artistic background of some of the professors and their personal approach to their students. After years of totalitarianism, in 1989 the AFAD was one of the few higher education institutions in the country where the whole teaching staff was re-selected in an open competition. Since then many changes in educational

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More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_Fine_Arts_and_Design,_Bratislava

Official Website https://www.vsvu.sk/

Coordinates 48°9'19.945" N 17°5'9.541" E

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