ABECEDA: A JAZZ-AGE ALPHABET FROM PRAGUE, 1926
This poster is now hanging up on my wall, I find it inspiring from the concept to the actual design. It measures at 760 mm x 560 mm.
'Karel Teige (1900-1951) was the brightest star in the brilliant constellation of Czech avant-garde artist-writers of the 1920s and 30's. A constructivist and a surrealist, a poet, collagist, photographer, typographer and architectural theorist, his 1926 photomontage designs for the alphabet are a uniquely elegant and witty invention, and one of the enduring masterpieces of Czech modernism. They enact the letter-titles of the twenty-five experimental poem sequence, ABECEDA, by his friend Vítězslav Nezval, and feature the third collaborator on the project, the dancer Milca Mayerova. It was Mayerova's idea to choreograph the poems, creating a pose for each letter, and then to publish it as a book of twenty-five images with Teige's title designs.'
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