Jitka Šosová, absolventka Katedry teorie a dějin umění UMPRUM, doktorát získala tamtéž s dizertační prací o etablování kánonu dějepisu umění. Zabývá se uměním 20. století a metodologií dějin umění, důležitou součástí její uměleckohistorické praxe je také oblast vzdělávání. Byla spolukurátorkou výstavy Tož to kupte!. Nyní působí na UMPRUM jako prorektorka pro internacionalizaci a rozvoj.

The book, based on a dissertation, examines art history from an unusual perspective: it briefly presents a new story of art history that was gradually created by Czech art historians after 1989, but the text focuses primarily on the individual means of constructing a new art historical canon. Although this term was not one of the most frequently used in professional debates for a long time, it represents a key means of communication with the public. The book examines three relevant areas in total. First, the permanent exhibitions that were opened by Czech, Moravian and Silesian museums of fine arts during the 1990s, then the concepts that the public had to understand the newly translated narrative of art history, and finally the question of how post-war Czech art was treated in the curriculum of primary schools, especially in history and art education.

Jitka Šosová, a graduate of the Department of Theory and History of Art at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, received her doctorate there with a dissertation on establishing the canon of art history. She deals with 20th-century art and the methodology of art history, and an important part of her art-historical practice is also the field of education. She was a co-curator of the exhibition Buy It!. She currently works at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design as Vice-Rector for Internationalization and Development.