Daceva rumjena (2 Ergebnisse)

85 Seiten, kartoniert mit Umschlagklappen, Sauberes Exemplar ohne Stempel und Anstreichungen. Zahlreiche Abbildungen und Tafeln. Sehr gut erhalten. Sprache: eng.

Soft Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Text in English and Czech. 86 pp. Minor rubbing to covers; spine end bumped. Teige studied history of art at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in Prague He devoted himself to extensive theoretical, publicist, lecturing, editiorial and organizational activities as well as being the leading initiator and representative of Czech avantgarde culture between the wars, primarily in the field of art, literature, architecture, photography, film and theatre. In 1920 he became a co-founder of the artistic group Dev?tsil (1920-1932) and the first chairman of Leva fronta (Left Front) (1929-1935). In 1934 he became a member of the Prague surrealist group, and was its spokesman until 1947. In the field of art theory he was a leading figure in the establishing of the programmes of proletarian art, poetism and constructivism. As an artist, his early paintings and graphics were influenced by cubism. Later on, he devoted himself to typography and book design characterized by constructivism. Within the framework of poetism, he developed the "pictorial poem". From 1934 until his death he worked systematically on the creation of surrealist collages. Karel Teige's most significant publications include Modern Czech Architecture (1924), Film (1925), Construction and Poem (1927), The World Which Laughs (1928), The Smallest Apartment (1932), The Art Fair (1936), a monograph on the artists Jan Zrzavý (1923) and Styrsky and Toyen (1938) which he published together with Vitezslav Nezval. His Manifesto of Poetism (1928) was also issued in collaboration with Nezval. In the 1940s he worked on questions concerning the philosophy of modern art in the book The Developmental Changes in Art, which had to wait until 1967 until it was allowed to be published for the first time.…