Scope and Contents Amazon.com: The avant-garde movements of Central Europe were an integral part of modernism's evolution as it reached its peak throughout the continent during the 1920s. Written documents--manifestoes, artists' statements, and reviews--were the lifeblood of these movements and, during the periods when political events conspired to isolate them, one of their few means of communication and exchange. Much of this crucial evidence has become lost to us, and the artistic avant-gardes of Central Europe have been a blind spot of modernist studies. Until their narratives have been recovered, the story of modernism will remain incomplete. In this book an international team of scholars has selected an essential compendium of documents that take an important step toward regaining this lost perspective.Between Worlds contains primary documents of the avant-gardes in Austria, the Czech lands, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia from 1910 to 1930. The manifestoes and magazines of...

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This book traces the history of concrete-visual-shaped poetry from ancient times to the earl avant garde movements of the 20th century and concludes with Hungarian works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Abraham Moles contributed the preface.The numbering system must have started at a number other than '1.' since only 3026 copies were printed.refThe section titled "La Poesie apres le Verbe" by M. and A. Chaleil, is an in depth critical evaluation of the contemporary international concrete poetry movement which has excellent illustrative examples. Gilbert Rochu provides a critical review of comic strip art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text of this book surveys the experiments and achievements in the graphic arts from 1917 to 1929, traces the influence of Russian folk art, Futurist poetry, Cubist art and Dada and describes how graphics brought the Revolutionary message to the people. Rodchenko's photomontage for Pro Eto and Telingater's jacket for Kirsanov's novel (1930), held by the Sackner Archive are reproduced. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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El Lissitzky's poster "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge" pictured on page 11 is same design as the poster held in the Sackner Archive. The poster reproduced but not displayed in the exhibition, is from the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The core of this exhibition of posters originates from the collection of Merrill C. Berman who also provides an interview with Alma Law on collecting such works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive also holds a first edition of the hard cover copy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.