After Kyjov we walked arm in arm? Damn, damn, what were people saying? (R. Jičín, Beneath the Sun of Ludibrionism) “But how are we to come to terms with a genuine work of art, something that is predicated on the fact we must continually and again remind ourselves what a work of art and our criticism of it is?” Z. Vašíček What is a work of art? How can one differentiate between an artistic work and the flood of items passed off as art? Who is an artist? Are the two somehow tied to a place and origin? Does art emerge from a concrete place? The city of Kyjov is called Gaya in German. Gaya is an ancient word, which