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Karel Teige
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LARSEN & FRIENDS' ABECEDA pt2 (excerpt from DVD)
Larsen & Friends live @ Teatro Colosseo, Torino, Italy
David Michael Tibet: vocals
Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo: guitar, electric viola
Jòhann Jòhannsson: electric organ, laptop
Baby Dee: harp, piano
Julia Kent: cello
Marco "il Bue"...
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ABECEDA TYPOGRAPHY BOOK BY KAREL TEIGE
David Michael Tibet: vocals
Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo: guitar, electric viola
Jòhann Jòhannsson: electric organ, laptop
Baby Dee: harp, piano
Julia Kent: cello
Marco "il Bue" Schiavo: drums, glokenspiel
Paolo Dellapiana: electronics, a...
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Karel Teige Wiki
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Karel Teige, Karel Teige (December 13, 1900 €“ October 1, 1951) was the major figure of the Czech avant-garde movement DevÄ›tsil (Nine Forces) in the 1920s, a graphic artist, photographer, and typographer. Teige also worked as an editor and graphic designer for DevÄ›tsil's monthly magazine ReD (Revue DevÄ›tsilu). With evidently endless energy, Teige introduced modern art to Prague. DevÄ›tsil-sponsored exhibitions and events brought international avant-garde figures like Le Corbusier, Man Ray, Paul Klee, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Walter Gropius, among many others, to lecture and perform in Prague. Teige interpreted their work, sometimes literally, for the Czech audience. In his 1935 Prague lecture, André Breton paid tribute to his "perfect intellectual fellowship" with Teige and Nezval: "Constantly interpreted by Teige in the most lively way, made to undergo an all-powerful lyric thrust by Nezval, Surrealism can flatter itself that it has blossomed in Prague as it has in Paris."
[1] Although not an architect, Teige was an articulate and knowledgeable architecture critic, an active participant in CIAM, and friends with Hannes Meyer, the second director of the Bauhaus. Teige and Meyer both believed in a scientific, functionalist approach to architecture, grounded in Marxist principles. In 1929 he famously criticized Le Corbusier's Mundaneum project (planned for Geneva but never built) on the grounds that Corbusier had departed from rational functionalism, and was on his way to becoming a mere stylist. Teige believed that 'the only aim and scope of modern architecture is the scientific solution of exact tasks of rational construction.' After welcoming the Soviet army as liberators, Teige was silenced by the Communist government in 1948. In 1951 he died of a heart attack, said to be a result of a ferocious Soviet press campaign against him as a 'Trotskyite degenerate,' his papers were destroyed by the secret police, and his published work was suppressed for decades.
[edit] References ^ "Surrealist situation of the object" in Breton, André (1972). Manifestoes of Surrealism. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0472061828. , p256
[edit] External links Description of recent Teige biography On Teige's erotic surrealist photomontages This Czech biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Teige" Categories: Czech people stubs | Czech artists | Czech photographers | Czech journalists | Czech translators | Surrealist artists | 1900 births | 1951 deaths
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