Abedeca (Alphabet)
Designers
Method
offset printing
Year
1926
Dimensions
298
×232
cm
In the designer’s words: “In Nezval’s Abeceda, a cycle of rhymes based on the shapes of letters, I tried to create a ‘typofoto’ of a purely abstract and poetic nature, setting into graphic poetry what Nezval set into verbal poetry in his verse, both being poems evoking the magic signs of the alphabet.” – Karel Teige. This book is a collaboration between Vítězslav Nezval who wrote the poetry (in 1922), Milča Mayerová (a dancer) choreographed and posed for the photographs by Karel Paspa in the book, and Karel Teige who designed it. The piece was central to the artists’ collective Devětsil (Nine forces) which embraced dada, surrealism and contructivism in Czechoslovakia.
Object views
Objects by
Karel Teige
Method →
offset printing
Period around
1926
