Plan: The Review for Literature, Art and Science Complete Run 2 vols.

Plán: Revue pro literaturu, umění a vědu.[Plan: The Review for Literature, Art and Science]. Complete Run, Vols. I–II (1929–1932). Prague: Fr. Borový, 1929–1932. Two quarto volumes, rebound in later cloth; Year I in an attractive contemporary red cloth binding with constructivist title design in black. Very good overall: bindings tight and sound; pages clean and crisp. Vol. II in half-cloth contemporary binding. Vol I (1929–1930): One original Constructivist front wrapper (double issue 10-11) laid in (all issues originally featured the same Otakar Mrkvička design). Vol. II (1930–1932): All original wrappers bound in except the wrapper for issue no. 8. A landmark Czech avant-garde review devoted to literature, art, and intellectual culture, notable for its bold typographic program and Constructivist illustration by Otakar Mrkvička and Vít Obrtel. Illustrated with photographs by László Moholy-Nagy and Jaromír Funke, and reproductions after Picasso, Léger, Klee, Modigliani, and Cocteau. The exceptionally rich literary contents place Plán at the center of interwar European modernism. Contributors include František Halas, Jaroslav Seifert, S. K. Neumann, Konstantin Biebl, Egon Erwin Kisch, Václav Černý, Vít Obrtel, Bedřich Václavek, and Vladislav Vančura, alongside appearances by Boris Pasternak and Tristan Tzara. The review also features translations of James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, and Langston Hughes, and contains the first appearance of Wallace Stevens in a Czech publication. Important theoretical texts include Obrtel’s Introduction to Neo-Constructivism, Václavek’s Beginnings of Collectivism in Modern Art, an early essay by Jan Mukařovský (On Contemporary Poetics), André Breton on proletarian writing, and Amédée Ozenfant’s glossary of modern art—together forming a substantial documentary record of Central European modernist thought. Year I Issues 1-12 736 pages; Year II I-11 343. pp. Year II ended with issue 11 and announcement that no more would be issued. Inv, G2