This publication is the result of visits carried out by Hans Ulrich Obrist to artists studios in Prague around 2001 and 2008. Interviews with Milan Grygar Jir Kovanda Karel Malich Zdenek Sykora and others map the historical events as well as the personal stories of the protagonists of the Czech second avantgarde and the neomodernism of the former socialist bloc. Born between 1920 and 1945 this generation lived through the cultural upheaval of the Prague Spring in the 1960s and the normalizatio