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KAREL TEIGE (design) and KAREL PASPA (photographs)
Abeceda -- Alphabet. Text by Vitezslav Nezval. Prague: J. Otto, 1926.
Quarto (298 x 232 mm). 25 black and white photomontages. (Light wear and a few repaired tears in the fore-margins.) Original printed wrappers (spine and extremities expertly repaired, light soiling).
FIRST EDITION OF THIS 'MODERNIST LANDMARK', AND 'ONE OF THE FIRST CONCEPTUAL ARTISTS' BOOKS', '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). Auer, p.124; Fotografia Publica, p.238; The Open Book, pp.62-63; The Photobook, vol. I, p.94.
Abeceda -- Alphabet. Text by Vitezslav Nezval. Prague: J. Otto, 1926.
Quarto (298 x 232 mm). 25 black and white photomontages. (Light wear and a few repaired tears in the fore-margins.) Original printed wrappers (spine and extremities expertly repaired, light soiling).
FIRST EDITION OF THIS 'MODERNIST LANDMARK', AND 'ONE OF THE FIRST CONCEPTUAL ARTISTS' BOOKS', '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). Auer, p.124; Fotografia Publica, p.238; The Open Book, pp.62-63; The Photobook, vol. I, p.94.
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