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Abeceda -- Alphabet. Design by Karel Teige. Photographs by Karel Paspa. Prague: J. Otto, 1926. Quarto (298 x 232mm). 25 black and white photomontages. Original printed wrappers (small repair to the spine, minor soiling).
FIRST EDITION. A VERY GOOD COPY OF 'ONE OF THE FIRST CONCEPTUAL ARTISTS' BOOKS' and 'an important landmark of the Czech avant-garde... which attempted to challenge both conventional artistic hierarchies and class distinctions with an art that could be equally embraced by a professor or a street cleaner' (The Photobook). Fotografia Publica, p.238; The Open Book, pp.62-63; The Photobook, p.94 ('A MODERNIST LANDMARK').
Abeceda -- Alphabet. Design by Karel Teige. Photographs by Karel Paspa. Prague: J. Otto, 1926. Quarto (298 x 232mm). 25 black and white photomontages. Original printed wrappers (small repair to the spine, minor soiling).
FIRST EDITION. A VERY GOOD COPY OF 'ONE OF THE FIRST CONCEPTUAL ARTISTS' BOOKS' and 'an important landmark of the Czech avant-garde... which attempted to challenge both conventional artistic hierarchies and class distinctions with an art that could be equally embraced by a professor or a street cleaner' (The Photobook). Fotografia Publica, p.238; The Open Book, pp.62-63; The Photobook, p.94 ('A MODERNIST LANDMARK').
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