Avant-garde - Czech Republic - Teige, Karel. Stavba a basen. Umeni dnes a zitra 1919-1927. (Buildings and poetry. Art today and tomorrow). With illustrations on plates. Prague, Olymp, 1927. 183 p., 20 pp. 24 x 16 cm. Original paperback with color cover illustration designed by the author (cover with narrow dust edges, slightly dusty and stained). Edice Olymp, vol. 7/8 - First edition. - Vloemans Avantgarda 84. with essays from 1919-1927 on all areas of modern art. - The plates with illustrations of architecture and works of art by Archipenko, Behrens, Le Corbusier, Gropius, Malevich, Picasso, Tatlin, etc. - "The cover is a beautiful architectural composition, a vintage Teige design." (Vloemans). - Plate layers partly loose, otherwise a fine, untrimmed copy. VAT: *

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