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[CZECH AVANT-GARDE - SURREALISM] Zvěrokruh: měsíčnik soudobého umění [Zodiac: a monthly of contemporary art], nos. 1 and 2 (all published) by Nezval, Vítězslav, editor

by Nezval, Vítězslav, editor

[CZECH AVANT-GARDE - SURREALISM] Zv��rokruh: m��s�­��nik soudob�©ho um��n�­ [Zodiac: a monthly of contemporary art], nos. 1 and 2 (all published) by Nezval, V�­t��zslav, editor

[CZECH AVANT-GARDE - SURREALISM] Zvěrokruh: měsíčnik soudobého umění [Zodiac: a monthly of contemporary art], nos. 1 and 2 (all published)

by Nezval, Vítězslav, editor

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Complete run of the important journal of the Czech avant-garde, which signaled the shift from the "poetism" of Devětsil (the movement would disband in 1931) as well as from the rationalism of constructivism and other left tendencies in art. Interestingly, the editorial statement of the first volume denies that the journal was primarily a surrealist publication; the contents suggest otherwise. (See Derek Sayer, Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century
A Surrealist History, 2021, p. 242).

The contributions include André Breton's second "Manifesto of Surrealism", long theoretical articles by Karel Teige and Bohuslav Brouk, works by Adolf Hoffmeister ("Polypoliticum Berlína), Vilím Závada, Konstantin Biebl, and Josef Kunstadt, and translations of works by Aragon, E. L. T. Mesens, Jean Desbordes, Baudelaire, Mallarme, Proust, C. G, Jung, Pierre Unik, Lorca, Tristan Tzara, Paul Eluard, Harry Crosby and others.

The reproductions include works by Max Ernst, Jindřich Štyrský, Toyen, Desnos, Man Ray, de Chirico, Odilon Redon, Germaine Krull, as well as childrens drawings.

As of March 2023, KVK, OCLC show five copies in North America. Complete run of the important journal of the Czech avant-garde, which signaled the shift from the "poetism" of Devětsil (the movement would disband in 1931) as well as from the rationalism of constructivism and other left tendencies in art. Interestingly, the editorial statement of the first volume denies that the journal was primarily a surrealist publication; the contents suggest otherwise. (See Derek Sayer, Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century
A Surrealist History, 2021, p. 242).

The contributions include André Breton's second "Manifesto of Surrealism", long theoretical articles by Karel Teige and Bohuslav Brouk, works by Adolf Hoffmeister ("Polypoliticum Berlína), Vilím Závada, Konstantin Biebl, and Josef Kunstadt, and translations of works by Aragon, E. L. T. Mesens, Jean Desbordes, Baudelaire, Mallarme, Proust, C. G, Jung, Pierre Unik, Lorca, Tristan Tzara, Paul Eluard, Harry Crosby and others.

The reproductions include works by Max Ernst, Jindřich Štyrský, Toyen, Desnos, Man Ray, de Chirico, Odilon Redon, Germaine Krull, as well as childrens drawings.

As of March 2023, KVK, OCLC show five copies in North America.

  • Bookseller Penka Rare Books and Archives DE (DE)
  • Book Condition Used
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  • Keywords czech, surrealism, surrealist, avant-garde, avantgarde, czechoslovak, breton