Devětsil
デヴィェトシル / 1920–1931 / Style / Book Arts
The Czech avant-garde group whose picture poems and book covers — Teige's lyrical constructivism of photograph, type and sign — made interwar Prague a laboratory of book design.
Picture poems / Photographs fused with type / Geometry used lyrically / Constructivist bookbinding
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Karel Teige / Nezval and Poetism / the legacy in postwar Czech book design