Flying with Wax WingsA necessary contemporary reframing of a classic nineteenth century artist. Josef Mnes (182071) was a creator on whom the Czech revivalist society placed its hopes for the creation of a national art. Mnes was a painter, draftsman, decorator, author of models for applied art and architecture, and an enfant terrible of the domestic art scene. A disgraced artist but an entertaining companion, he was idealized and profaned in various cultural and political