Main entry:

Česká fotografická avantagarda, 1918-1948. English.

Title & Author:

Czech photographic avant-garde, 1918-1948 / concept and selection of photographs, Vladimír Birgus ; texts, Vladimír Birgus [and others].

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.

Description:

311 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-308) and index.
Preface and acknowledgments / Vladimír Birgus and Pierre Bonhomme -- Czech avant-garde art and the world / Vladimír Birgus -- From pictorialism to the avant-garde / Vladimír Birgus -- Optical words (picture poems and poetism) / Karel Srp -- Abstract and nonfigurative tendencies / Antonín Dufek -- New photography / Vladimír Birgus -- Avant-Garde photography and advertising / Jan Mlčoch -- Socio-critical photography of the 1930s / Vladimír Birgus -- Hidden sources (photographs, collages, and surrealism) / Karel Srp -- Surrealist photography / Antonín Dufek -- Avant-garde photography and the book / Iva Janáková -- Photography in the Czech avant-garde theater / Vladimír Birgus -- Chronology of Czech art 1918-1948 / Vladimír Birgus -- Chronology of Czech photography 1918-1948 / Vladimír Birgus.
Translation from the Czech.

Summary:

"Czech Photographic Avant-Garde 1918-1948 represents the first comprehensive publication devoted to avant-garde photography and photo-montage from the period that began with the founding of the independent Czechoslovak state and closed with the emerging totalitarian Communist regime. Although a number of top museums and galleries throughout the world boast examples of the work of Frantsek Drtikol, Jaromir Funke, Jaroslav Rossler, Josef Sudek, and other artists within their collections, the Czech photographic avant-garde as a whole, in its originality, scope, and quality, has yet to receive the attention it deserves in this area of specialized literature."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0262025167 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780262025164 (hc ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Photography Czechoslovakia History 20th century Exhibitions.
Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Czechoslovakia History.
Photography, Artistic.
Photography Czechoslovakia History.
Photographie Tchécoslovaquie Histoire.
Avant-garde (Esthétique) Tchécoslovaquie Histoire.
Photographie artistique.
Photographie Tchécoslovaquie Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Photographie artistique Expositions.
art photography.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Photography
Fotografie.
Fotomontage.
Avant-garde.
Czechoslovakia

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs
History
Books.
Photography, Artistic.

Added entries:

Birgus, Vladimír.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 222898
Call No.: TR65.3 B5 2002
Status: Available