Film by Karel Teige
Karel Teige, born in Prague in 1900, was a guest lecturer at the Bauhaus during Hannes Meyer's tenure as director. Politically, he was a member of the Left Front, an arm of the Communist Party made up of intellectuals. He also co-founded Devětsil, an avant-garde association of artists. Its members invented “Poetism”, which focused on magical realism and the proletkult.
Devětsil Exhibition
"The first and only exhibition of the Devětsil Art Association in Prague City Gallery took place in 1986, more than 30 years ago. František Šmejkal prepared it in collaboration with Rostislav Švácha and Jan Rous. Subsequently there was a number of partial or monographic exhibitions of the Czech visual avant-garde of the 1920s, e.g., Devětsil in Brno or Josef Šíma’s early work, but it has never before been presented as a whole with new research findings."
Further Research
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Film) by
Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders. (via IMDb)
Publication Date: 1920
Devetsil Czech Avant-Garde Art by Call Number: Q. 709.437074 D494ISBN: 0905836707Publication Date: 1990
Expressionism and Film by
Expressionism and Film, originally published in German in 1926, is not only a classic of film history, but also an important work from the early phase of modern media history. Written with analytical brilliance and historical vision by a well-known contemporary of the expressionist movement, it captures Expressionism at the time of its impending conclusion—as an intersection of world view, resoluteness of form, and medial transition. (via Indiana University Press)
Call Number: PN1993.5.G3 K813 2016ISBN: 9780861967186Publication Date: 2016
Expressionist Film -- New Perspectives by
New essays by leading scholars giving a new picture of the variety of German expressionist cinema. (via Boydell & Brewer)
Call Number: PN1993.5.G3 E94 2003ISBN: 1571130683Publication Date: 2003
Karel Teige, 1900-1951 by
Essays on Karel Teige, the most influential figure of the Czech avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s—plus four essays by Teige translated into English for the first time. (via MIT Press)
Call Number: 769.9437 T234dISBN: 0262041707Publication Date: 1999
The Kid (Film) by
Charlie Chaplin was already an international star when he decided to break out of the short-film format and make his first full-length feature. The Kid doesn’t merely show Chaplin at a turning point, when he proved that he was a serious film director—it remains an expressive masterwork of silent cinema. In it, he stars as his lovable Tramp character, this time raising an orphan (a remarkable young Jackie Coogan) he has rescued from the streets. Chaplin and Coogan make a miraculous pair in this nimble marriage of sentiment and slapstick, a film that is, as its opening title card states, “a picture with a smile—and perhaps, a tear.” (via Criterion)
Call Number: BLURAY PN1995.9.C55 K53 2016Publication Date: 1921
The Man who Laughs (Film) by
When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured. (via IMDb)
Publication Date: 1928
Metropolis (Film) by
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences. (via IMDb)
Publication Date: 1927
Modern Architecture in Czechoslavia and Other Writings by
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 increasingly turned his attention to architecture. Over the next decade he crystallized his ideas on functionalist and constructivist practice through relationships with ideological allies including Adolf Behne, Theo van Doesburg, Hannes Meyer, and El Lissitzky. In Modern Architecture in Czechoslovakia (published in 1930), Teige both publicized the modernist efforts of his native country, and aligned them with the avant-garde efforts of the East and West. (via Getty)
Call Number: 720.9437 T23m:EISBN: 9780892365968Publication Date: 2000
Nosferatu (Film) by
Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife. (via IMDb)
Publication Date: 1922
Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century by
Setting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the “city of light,” Walter Benjamin dubbed Paris “the capital of the nineteenth century.” In this eagerly anticipated sequel to his acclaimed Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History, Derek Sayer argues that Prague could well be seen as the capital of the much darker twentieth century. Ranging across twentieth-century Prague’s astonishingly vibrant and always surprising human landscape, this richly illustrated cultural history describes how the city has experienced (and suffered) more ways of being modern than perhaps any other metropolis. (via Princeton University Press)
Call Number: NX571.C92 P777 2013ISBN: 9780691043807Publication Date: 2013
