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

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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

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