Variant Title:
Czech avant-garde art and modern glass from the Roy and Mary Cullen collection
Notes:
Catalog published to coincide with an exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 6, 2011-February 5, 2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Czech glass by Johann Lötz Witwe, Antonín Rückl & Sons, Wilhelm Kralik Sohn, Ernst Steinwald & Co., Franz Welz, Nový Bor, Conrath & Liebsch, Friedrich Pietsch, Kamenický Šenov, Johann Oertel & Co., Beyermann & Co., Carl Goldberg, Ludwig Moser & Sons, Rachmann Bros., Karl Palda, Rudolf Hloušek, and Solomon Reich & Co. : p. 266-293.
Contents:
New formations: Czech avant-garde art and modern glass from the Roy and Mary Cullen Collection / Alison de Lima Greene --
Accidental revolutionaries: a conversation with Roy and Mary Cullen / Alison de Lima Greene --
The new alphabet / Karel Srp, Lenka Bydžovská --
Paris / Jaroslav Seifert --
Painting and poetry / Karel Teige --
Modern typography / Karel Teige --
Mirrors without images / Karel Srp, Lenka Bydžovská --
Artficialism / Jindřich Štyrský and Toyen --
The inspired illustrator / Jindřich Štyrský --
Under covers / Karel Srp, Lenka Bydžovská --
Emilie comes to me in a dream / Jindřich Štyrský --
In the service of surrealism / Karel Srp, Lenka Bydžovská --
The voice of the forest / Vítězslav Nezval --
Roots / Vítězslav Nezval --
Surrealism is not a school of art / Karel Teige --
Systematic investigation of reality through the reconstruction of the object, hallucination and illusion / Vítězslav Nezval --
Lunatic years / Karel Srp, Lenka Bydžovská --
Specters of the desert / Jindřich Heisler --
The world we live in / Jindřich Chalupecký --
War, hide yourself! / Jindřich Heisler --
The shooting gallery / Karel Teige --
The well in the tower / Karel Srp, Lenka Bydžovská --
The large shadows of the shooting gallery / Radovan Ivšić --
Czech modern glass and the Roy and Mary Cullen collection / Jan Mergl.
