1922 Devětsil Revolutionary Anthology

Teige, Karel ed. Revoluční sborník Devětsil. Prague: Devětsil, 1922. 22 x 15 cm. 108 pp. Original printed wrappers. A very good copy of this seminal publication of the Czech avant-garde. Revoluční sborník Devětsil (The Devětsil Revolutionary Anthology) marks the ideological and aesthetic manifesto of the Devětsil artistic collective in its early phase. Edited by Karel Teige this anthology brings together poetry, essays, and theoretical writings that outline the group's radical vision of art as a tool for social transformation in the wake of World War I and the Russian Revolution.