Dilo Marcela Prousta. Hledani Ztraceneho Casu A la recherche du temps perdu / Remembrance of Things Past

by Marcel Proust, Karel Teige

$1,500 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books

The Czech avant-garde designers of the 20s and 30s, with Teige as their leader, rejected the bibliophile tradition of book design and sought instead to use avant-garde aesthetics to create simply produced books that could be made available to all. This was not merely an attempt to put modern art on a book cover but rather to rethink the entire aesthetics of the thing and so produce a modern book and a modern book cover. -The Art Institute of Chicago The Czech translation of

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