Modern Architecture in Czechoslovakia and Other Writings

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Karel TeigeIntroduction by Jean-Louis CohenTranslations by Irena Murray and David Britt The writings of graphic designer, prolific critic, and avant-garde partisan Karel Teige (1900-1951) represent one of the great forgotten legacies of modern artistic theory. Together with Jaromír Krejcar and Josef Chocol, he founded the radical Devetsil group in 1920, an organization committed to promoting international modernism through manifestos and polemics.  After meeting Le Corbusier in Paris in 1922, Teige…