(Teige, Karel). Oakley, Lucy; editor - Dreams and Disillusion: Karel Teige and the Czech Avant-Garde. (Cover Title)

New York: Grey Art Gallery, 2001. 2001. New York: Grey Art Gallery, 2001. 2001. Very good. - sc Quarto [14 inches high by 11 inches wide], unbound. 4 sheets of white stock are folded, newpaper-style, to form 16 pages, including a front & rear cover page. Numerous black-and-white illustrations. The catalog has been folded once. Very good. This issue of Grey Gazette (Vol. 4, No. 2, Summer 2001) serves as the catalog for an exhibition organized by the Wolfsonian-Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida which was presented at New York University's Grey Art Gallery from May 1 to July 7, 2001. Karel Teige [1900-1951] was the leading figure of the Czech avant-garde movement "Devetsil" in the 1920s, a graphic artist, photographer and typographer. He was also an editor and graphic designer for Devetsil's monthly magazine "ReD". He introduced figures of the international avant-garde to Prague, among them Le Corbusier, Man Ray, Paul Klee, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Walter Gropius. He was a knowledgeable critic of architecture and a believer in rational functionalism: "the only aim and scope of modern architecture is the scientific solution of exact tasks of rational construction." Teige was silenced by the Communist government of 1948. He died of a heart attack in 1951, said to be the result of a ferocious Soviet campaign against him, branding him a "Trotskyite degenerate". Very good .

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