Translated
by Jindrich Toman
Product
Details CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT
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ISBN: |
0-930042-88-3 |
| Format: |
Paperback,
69pp |
| Pub.
Date: |
2001 |
| Edition
Description: |
First
Edition |
| Series: |
CZT
#3 |
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Description CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT
Alphabet by Vítězslav Nezval (1900-1959) is widely recognized
today as a consummate Czech contribution to European
modernism and a unique distillation of the creative
spirit of the 1920’s. Published originally in 1926,
it is a composite of experimental poetry, modern dance,
and photomontage typography, by the poet Vítězslav Nezval,
dancer Milča Mayerová, and typographer Karel Teige.
This idiosyncratic and idiomatic work transports the
reader-viewer through the discipline and fantasy of
the modern age. The contributions of Karel Teige, the
leading spokesperson for Devĕtsil and avant-garde ideas
in interwar Czechoslovakia, has secured the book international
fame in recent years. Teige’s original layout, designed
to create “an optical language, a system of signs capable
of embodying words in graphic figures,” has been preserved
in this facsimile edition.
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