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Karel Teige: functionalist and then some: the first exhibition in the U.S. of a leading Czech modernist illuminates the intellectual landscape of interwar Prague while adding new dimensions to the histories of design, architectural theory and the international style
Art in America, Dec, 2001 by Joseph Masheck
(27.) Teige, "Poetism" (1924), trans. Alexandra Buchler, in Dluhosch and Svacha, pp. 64-71, here p. 70.
(28.) Jan Mukarovsky, "On the Problem of Functions in Architecture," in Structure, Sign and Function: Selected Essays, trans, and ed. John Burbank and Peter Steiner, Yale Russian and East European Studies, 14, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1978, pp. 236-50, here pp. 244, 246.
(29.) Karel Srp, "Karel Teige During the Thirties: Projecting Dialectics," trans. Karolina Vocadlo, in Dluhosch and Svacha, Karel Teige, pp. 256-91; Vojtech Lahoda, "Karel Teige's Collages: The Erotic Object, the Social Object and Surrealist Landscape Art," trans. David Chirico, op. cit., pp. 292-323.
"Dreams and Disillusion: Karel Teige and the Czech Avant-Garde" was organized by The Wolfsonian--Florida International University, Miami Beach, where it debuted [Nov. 16, 2000-Apr. 1, 2001]. It traveled to New York University's Grey Art Gallery [May 1-July 7] and can be seen at the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago [Oct. 4-Dec. 30]. The show was curated by Eric Dluhosch with Wendy Kaplan and James Wechsler. Dluhosch and Rostislav Svacha have edited an accompanying 400-page volume, Karel Teige, 1900-1951: L'Enfant Terrible of the Czech Modernist Avant-Garde, published by MIT Press.
Author: Joseph Masheck is a professor of art history at Hofstra University.
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