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VÝTVARNÁ VÝCHOVA. Sborník pro užité umění, kreslení a zrakovou výchovu.
by Josef Vydra, Ladislav Sutnar, Karel Herain, eds.
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- 1935-1944
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Oblong octavo 15x21 cm., four numbers per year. Vytvarna Vychova (Art Education, Anthology of Artwork, Design and Visual Training) was a series of books issued from 1935 to 1944 in four numbers per year. Every cover had the same design format. Generally each number holds 56 pages of instructions, lessons, and discussion of art and design principles, with copious illustrations… Read more about this item Item Price
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Mieczyslaw Szczuka
by Anatpol Stern & Mieczyslaw Berman
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- 1965
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$500.00
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Quarto 28x23 cm., decorated cloth, 192 pp., errata sheet, in original dust wrapper; copiously illustrated throughout. Polish language text.
The first full monograph and memoir on Mieczyslaw Szczuka, (1890-1927), visual genius and lodestar of the avant-garde in Poland, edited by two of his closest friends who worked with Szczuka and were leaders of the avant-garde in Warsaw. Stern was a author… Read more about this item Item Price
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Tytus Czyzewski a kryzys formizmu
by Leon Chwistek
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- 1922
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(Tytus Czyzewski & the Crisis of Formism)
Octavo 21.8x17.3 cm., original wrappers, 4pp, 13 plates. Tytus Czyzewski (1880-1945) was a painter and art theorist who was greatly influenced by Cezanne. Together with the Pronaszko brothers he put together a group of expressionist and cubist artists based in Krakow. The Formisci expanded their dimensions to include members with widely… Read more about this item Item Price
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1928 JUBILEJNÍ VÝSTAVA ČESKOSLOVENSKÉ KULTURY V BRNĚ 1928
by Jiří Kroha
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- 1928
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$450.00
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[The 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition of Czechoslovak Culture in Brno 1928]. Octavo 15x9.5 cm., with 20 photogravure plates of exteriors and interiors of this nation-edifying exhibition in the summer of 1928. A souvenir booklet consisting of superb shots of the fair's modernist structures designed by architect Jiří Kroha (1893-1974). Kroha is esteemed as a foremost exponent of Czech Functionalism. With… Read more about this item Item Price
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Básně (Poetry)
by Marcus Valerius Martialis
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- 1930
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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Splendid, erotic, quasi-surrealist Muzika drawings
Small octavo 13.5 x 9.7 cm, custom ½-calf, 77pp., no. 157 in an edition of 350; Published by Stanislav K. Neumann. A fine little work with five exquisite drawings by František Muzika in a Czech translation with a foreword of the poetry of Martial by Josef Dietrich. Muzika's artwork of this time combines elements of classical… Read more about this item Item Price
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A KÁMZSÁS FESTŐ STRÓFAI. (Verses of the Hooded Painter)
by Arthur Keleti
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- 1912
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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Octavo 16.5x10cm., original wrappers, 64pp. First and only edition. Cover design and twelve drawings by Lajos Gulácsy. Arthur Keleti (Artur Rosenburg, 1889-1969) was a Hungarian poet and translator; he was also a master bookmaker. In 1912 he met Lajos Gulácsy who encouraged him to publish his first book of poetry after which they went to Italy. This trip had a… Read more about this item Item Price
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Dřevoryty k Mystikům a Visionařům.
by Josef Váchal
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- second printing
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- ca 1923
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Portfolio of original woodcuts by Josef Váchal
Woodcuts to Mystics and Visionaries. A Cycle of Woodcuts from the Period of 1911-1913. Folio in wrappers (21-5/8 x 15-3/8 inches), prints are 8-1/4 x 8-1/4 inches. Five woodcuts saluting the life of mystics and seers: Strom Života (The Tree of Life), Cornelius Agrippa, Jakob Boehme, Angelus Silesius and Katařina Emmerichová, all loose as… Read more about this item Item Price
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Balada o ohnive smrti
by Josef Dvorak
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- 1932
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$600.00
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Octavo 21x14 cm., wrappers, 13(3) pp. 19/150 copies. Dvorak (1901-1958) began his life work as a poet; this is his second collection. Later he achieved success with biographic prose and organized anthologies. He moved to Prague in 1939 with the founding of the Slovak State pursued a distinguished career in literary and political circles. With drawings by O. Ondracka. Signed… Read more about this item Item Price
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Bohyne svetice zeny. Torso.
by Stanislav K. Neumann
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- 1915
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Octavo 20.5x11.5 cm., full-calf, 85(6) pp. (The Divinity of Holy Woman. A Fragment) With a fine lithograph by Josef Capek for the frontispiece from his late cubist period. S.K. Neumann was an oversize literary figure and social activist from the early 1900s, first as an anarcho-communist and founder of the Communist party in the First Republic, soon after the October… Read more about this item Item Price
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ÁNO A NIE. Sbornik.
by Mikuláš Bakoš and Klement Šimončič (eds.)
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- 1938
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Octavo 21.5x14 cm., wrappers, (6)120 pp. The first surrealist almanac in Slovak language. It notes that it is numbers 6-8 of Slovenský smery umeleckých a kritických, from May to July1938. It is the summary compilation of previous numbers which were individual articles appearing in this journal over 1937-38. The pagination starts as p. 201 but the Table of Contents indicate… Read more about this item Item Price
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DAV. Umenie, Kritika, Politika, Filozofia, Literatura.
by L’udo Obtulovic, V. Stolcz, J. Stekanina, Ladislav Szántó, Edo Urx, eds. inter alia
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- First complete
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- 1965
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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$1,800.00
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The only full publication of this legendary journal of the Slovak avant-garde
Large quarto 34.3 x 25 cm, cloth, 1496pp. The reprint* of the legendary, most radical journal of the Slovakian avant-garde which appeared from 1924-26 and 1931-37 (here all published). It began as an artistic venture by the Davisti group of artists, writers and intellectuals spearheading the latest Slovak arts… Read more about this item Item Price
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Dvanásti
by Alexander Alexandrovič Blok
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- 1934
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Rare, DAV first translation of Blok's The Twelve into Slovak
Quarto 23.5x15 cm., wrappers, 24pp. Issued as the third book of DAV. The first translation into Slovak by the poet Janko Jesenský of Blok's famous response to the 1917 revolution, with a preface by Laco Novomeský. Printed by Pallas in Prešov. Typo and cover design by Zdeněk Rossmann. Original… Read more about this item Item Price
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Ut'ate ruky
by Rudolf Fabry
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- 1935
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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Octavo 20x14 cm., wrappers, 61(4) pp. 512 copies. Fabry´s book debut. Cover design and typography by the author. Rudolf Fabry (1915-1982) was a poet and surrealist artist, the first to be acknowledged in Slovakia and one of the most significant in both fields. The present work was the first surrealist novel in Slovak and it also is rated the author's… Read more about this item Item Price
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KAMENY ZLOMU. Studenský almanach
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- 1933
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$400.00
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Octavo 19x12,5 cm., original wrappers, 56(4) pp. 450 copies. Cover design, typograph and illustrations by Vladimir Hnizdo. Vladimír Jan Hnizdo (1914-1978) was a painter, graphic artist and theater set designer. This is an early work, before he studied at the School of Applied Arts in Prague, and displays sophistication. After heading the production at the Theater of Cologne he was… Read more about this item Item Price
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Die Blume Anna. Die neue Anna Blume.
by Kurt Schwitters
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- 1922
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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Original wrappers, 32pp. Schwitters initially published the poem Anna Blume in 1919 in Der Sturm magazine. It was published later that year under Steegemann's die Silbergaule. The present publication brings together a variety of poetic experiments with page design and was released as a Sturm-Buch, incorporating new material, including Klang-Gedichte (sound poems) and great inventiveness… Read more about this item Item Price
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Alkotás.
by Lajos Kassak, ed.
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- 1947
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- Original wrappers newly bound in cloth
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Folio 30 x 24 cm, wrappers 12 numbers in 6 issues, year 1, and 4 numbers in 2 issues, year 2, 1947-48 (all published). Original wrappers bound in cloth. Lajos Kassák made an ambitious effort to present a world-class art journal from Budapest under the banner of the Hungarian Council of the Arts, launching it in January 1947. Championing the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Pošklebky satyrovy.
by Emmerich Al. Hruška
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- 1921
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$900.00
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Octavo 175x135mm., wrappers, 32pp. "The Satyr's Jeers," From the series Knihovna "České Prameny" Year III, No. XVI, published by Hůrka in the early First Republic. Emmerich Alois Hruška (1895-1957) apprenticed under Josef Váchal and is noted for his philosophical musings and curiosa Witty epigrams, chansons and erotic poems of the kind often recited at that time in Prague's cabarets. This… Read more about this item Item Price
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SEXUALNÍ NOCTURNO.
by Vitězslav Nezval, Jindřich Štyrský
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- 1931
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Octavo 20x13 cm., original wrappers, 62pp.. Ten full-page xylographic collages by Jindřich Štyrský. Edition of 138 numbered copies, this being no. 94 printed on simulated Japan paper. Privately printed and only distributed by Styrsky to his friends and collectors, the Edice 69 was edited by Štyrský and Toyen with Nezval. None of the titles were not released for public consumption.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Szkice estetyczne (Esthetic sketches)
by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
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- 1922
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Small octavo 17x11.5 cm., wrappers, 166pp. In the original dust wrapper from F. Hoesick, Warsaw. Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz aka Witkacy (1885-1939) was an extraordinary gifted artist, photographer, dramatist, novelist and philosopher. He developed a fantastic expressionism and participated in the Formist group in Kraków from 1917 to 1919. Here he outlines his differences with all of the art theories and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Napok a mi napjaink
by Lajos Kassák
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- 1st Edition
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- 1928
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- Hardcover
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Budapest: Pantheon, nd, 1928 Octavo, decorated cloth, 319pp. (Days of our Days) Kassák edited a series in 1928 for this publisher called The New Hungarian Novel, which included works by Márai, Lovászy and Jarno along with his own. His intention, especially in this novel, is to produce art that will provoke social action. This novel pits workers against the authority… Read more about this item Item Price
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