Devetsil: Czech Avant-Garde Art Architecture and Design in the 1920s and 30s (1990)

Catalogue for an important show in Britain of the avant-garde Czech art of the 1930s. “Situated at the heart of Europe, Czechoslovakia became a meeting point where the influences of French Surrealism and Purism, the emerging Bauhaus in Germany and the revolutionary socialist art of the Soviet Constructivists became transformed into a new aesthetic programme. The artists affiliated to the Devetsil group were at the centre of this.” Essays on all facets of the group’s work, from posters to painting. Condition: covers a little dust-marked, otherwise very good.