Pictorial Atlas of a Girl Who Cut a Library into Pieces

Pictorial Atlas of a Girl Who Cut a Library into Pieces is a two-volume artist's book by the Czech artist Eva Koťátková (b. 1982), staging roughly 300 collages as an imagined 1980s schoolbook from her Prague childhood under Communist rule.

Co-published in 2016 by JRPEditions and tranzit.cz — the twelfth volume in tranzit's series on Central and Eastern European artists — the book gathers collages and drawings made 2013–2015: children at play or bound into diagrams, spliced with anatomical fragments and puppet-like armatures, in scenes with the psychological unease of Kafka. A companion volume, Institutional, Operational and Organisational Rules and Regulations 1961–1989, reprints twenty-two sets of real Czechoslovak bureaucratic regulations, pairing Koťátková's invented pedagogy with the actual machinery of state control it echoes.

Koťátková studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, and works across collage, sculpture, and performance to examine how institutions discipline the body and imagination of children. Her work has appeared in the 2013 and 2024 Venice Biennales and documenta fifteen she is represented by Hunt Kastner (Prague) and Meyer Riegger (Berlin/Karlsruhe).