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PAZ, Octavio and KATAYAMA, Toshi. 3 Notations/Rotations. Cambridge, MA: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts of Harvard University, 1974. Square quarto, four heavy card-stock sheets, with lighter card-stock dividers. A collaboration between Paz and artist Katayama, the work consists of three visual poems, entitled "Portrait," "Two in One" and "Bread or Riddle," each set on a template with a revolving upper section, so that the text, and the work of art, changes as the moving piece is turned. An elegant and playful collaboration between poet and artist, inspired, per Paz, by his admiration for Mallarme, among other influences. One of 150 numbered copies, signed by Paz and Katayama. A very fine copy in the publisher's printed card-stock box, and even contained in the publisher's original labeled shipping box. Rare in this condition.
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PESANEK, Zdenek. Kinetismus. (Kinetika ve vytvarnictvi - barevna hudba). Prague: Ceske graficke umeni, 1941. Octavo, 144pp. Bound in modern green cloth with original wrappers preserved. Zdenek Pesanek (1896-1965) was a Czech sculptor and pioneer in putting forth the idea of color-music, which, aside from its roots in 18th Century France, was surprisingly influential during the interwar period of the Czech avant-garde. This book is the only work published during his lifetime in which his theories were given exposition. Illustrations, many in color, throughout. Remarkably published during the Nazi occupation. Wrappers lightly soiled, otherwise a fine copy. Rare.
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RICHTER, Gerhard. Charcoal Drawing of a Reclining Nude / Originale Kohlezeichnung. ca. 1960. 24" x 16" charcoal drawing by the young artist, depicting the most famous stage actress of eastern Germany of her day. The present is one of only two known extant drawings by the master from the period prior to his flight from the east in 1962. Signed and titled by Richter on the verso, the latter writing not quite penetrable. Although Richter himself has always felt insecure about his work as a draughtsman and has been reported as saying as much in the recent monograph devoted to his drawings, his early work in pencil certainly attests to a freshness and genuine approach to his subjects that belies his later scruples. Richter is indeed a problematic critic of his own work in general, and he has engineered its reception in a way that puts even Picasso to shame. One day, it will all have to stand or fall on its own merits -- and we expect the vast majority will stand, as Richter is indeed the pre-eminent visual artist of our time.
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SAUDEK, Jan. Original Silver Print with Watercolor Embellishment. 1988. 15 3/4" x 11 3/4" (40 x 30cm) silver print with watercolor hand embellishment by the bizarre Czech photographer. A strange symmetrical "mirror image" of two nudes, torsos and legs only, one a woman, one at least half man. The deployment of the figures over a sort of globe-like patterned cloth gives the impression of an old map presided over by mythological creatures. Fine. Signed and titled by Saudek on the verso, "Pour Pierrot." Number 7 of 30 examples. Published in the book, Theater of Life.
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SEIFERT, J(aroslav). Mesto v Slza'ch. Prague: Komunisticke knihkupectvi a nakladatelstvi Rejman Rud., 1920. Octavo, 62pp. First edition of the second book, and the first volume of poetry, by the great Czech Nobel laureate. The work bears a cover woodcut and two full-page textual woodcuts by his renowned avant-garde comrade-in-arms Karel Tiege. A fine copy in publisher's wrappers. Inscribed by Seifert, "To Dr. Vladimir Klusky, with best regards, Jaroslav Siefert, November 59."
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TIEGE, Karel, ed. Anthologie protifasistickych umelcu. Prague: Odeon, for V. Smeral, 1936. Octavo, 71 (+)pp. First (and only) edition, one of 550 numbered copies, the present bearing the number 181, on wood-free paper (there were also fifteen Roman-numeral copies on Pannekoek paper). An anthology of anti-Fascist art and literature, edited and designed by Karel Teige and signed by all 23 contributors, the luminaries of the contemporary Czech avant-garde, on the page on which their contributions appear. Teige did not sign the book.Contributors include Nezval, Burian, Hoffmeister, Styrsky, Toyen, Halas, Biebl, Kratochvil, Neumann and others. A very good or better copy in publisher's card-stock boards and red French-fold wrapper with printed label. Former owners date and place on title page.
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VACHAL, Josef. Drevoryty k Mystikum a Visionarum. Cyklus drevorytu z obdobi 1911-1913. (Woodcuts to Mystics and Visionaries. A cycle of woodcuts from the period 1911-1913.) Prague: M. Beznoska, n.d. (1913). Folio, 55cm x 39.5cm (21 5/8" x 15 3/8"). A suite of five woodcuts commemorating the lives of mystics and seers, including symbolist images of Zivota Strom, Comelius Agrippa, Jakob Boehme, Angelius Silesius and Catherine Emmerich, laid loose into a printed portfolio, as issued, with printed titles on the rear wrap of the portfolio, where it is also signed by vachal. Each print bears the artist's seal. Himself a mystic of the strangest sort, Vachal id probably better qualified than anyone to undertake the present retrospective. A fine copy of this rare item in the opus of one of the most wonderful artists of the Eastern European avant-garde, who was also among the really unique book-makers of the 20th Century. Rare.
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