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7th April 2010

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billyjane: from the book Abeceda/Alphabet written by Vitĕzslav Nezval and illustrated with Karel Teige’s photographs of dancer Milca Mayerova,1926 Karel Teige remarks ‘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’ [must see:some of his surreal collages, more@ queering] via V&A

billyjane:

from the book Abeceda/Alphabet

written by Vitĕzslav Nezval and illustrated with Karel Teige’s photographs of dancer Milca Mayerova,1926

Karel Teige remarks ‘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’

[must see:some of his surreal collages, more@ queering]

via V&A

Tagged: 1920skarel teigemilca mayerovasurrealsurrealismtypephotovitezslav nezvalFTT

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