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Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.: MIT Press, 1999. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine +/Fine +. Square 4to. A crisp, clean Fine copy in a Fine mylar-protected dust jacket dust jacket. 420 pp., profusely illustrated, notes, chronological overview and index. Introduction by Kenneth Frampton. Teige, a leading figure of the European avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s, participated in every important argument and controversy of those turbulent years. He edited the most influential avant-garde journals on Czech and international cultural developments and wrote profoundly original essays and books on the theory and criticism of art and architecture. Laid in are a bookmark from the Getty Museum's "Shaping the Great City: Modern Architecture in Central Europe 1890-1937" exhibit and a press release for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's "Central European Avant-Gardes: Exchange and Transformation, 1910-1930" exhibit. As New/As New.

New York, NY: Phaidon, 2003. First Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. An As New copy in As New mylar-protected dust jacket. 240 pp., richly illustrated, notes, bibliography and index. An historical survey of avant-garde cultural, art, and political magazines and journals from the early twentieth century to the present day.

New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2001. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/As New. Square 4to. Introduction by Ellen Lupton, essay by Alston W. Purvis, 272 pp., profusely illustrated in color and b&w, with all the 116 covers of this extraordinary avant-garde Dutch arts journal published over its 14 year run represented by full-color plates. Under the direction of architect Theodorus Wijdeveld, Wendingen sought out the newest ides and most creative practitioners in all of the visual arts, including architecture, graphics, sculpture, ceramics, glass and teatrical design. Includes extensive notes, a list of all the cover designers and an index. In its fourteen year history, Wendingen featured the work of such diverse artists and architects as Gustav Klimt, Josef Hoffmann, Michel de Klerk, El Lissitzky, Erich Mendelsohn, and Eileen Gray. From 1925-26, it published a series of seven issues of unparalleled beauty devoted to the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. As New except for one small fox mark on top edge. Read More