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oa Chapter 16. The politics of translation

Textual-visual strategies towards transnational network building in the periodicals of the Czech interwar avant-garde

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Founded in 1920, Devětsil – a Czech group of young leftist artists and poets – set out to create a distinctly modern avant-garde movement with broad international ties. This was a goal that Devětsil managed to achieve with remarkable success through a variety of strategies; the scope of its project is perhaps most visible in the case of its periodicals, which were circulated widely across Europe.

This essay looks at several specific examples of the use of translation and multilingualism, as well as a “universal” visual language, in the magazines published by the Czech avant-garde in the 1920s, towards a better understanding how transnational and non-hierarchal modes of network formation were enacted via the periodical publications of the historical avant-garde.

  • Affiliations: 1: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

References

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  23. Teige, Karel
    1927a “Moderní Typo”. Typografia34, no.7-9:189–198.
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  24. 1927b “Slova, slova, slova”. Horizont1, no.1–4: 1–3, 29–32, 45–47, 70–73.
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  26. 1931 “Jan Tschichold v Praze”. Rozpravy Aventina6, no.18 (Jan. 1931):212.
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  27. 1999 “Modern Typography”. InKarel Teige/1900–1951: L’Enfant Terrible of the Czech Modernist Avant-garde, edited by Eric Dluhosch and Rostislav Švácha , translated by Alexandra Büchler , 92–105. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
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    1970 “U. S. Devětsil”. Pražské ponděli (Dec.6 1920) Anthologized inAvantgarda známá a neznámá. Edited by Vlašín Štěpán . Vol.1.:81–83. Praha: Svoboda.
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    1928 Die neue Typographie: Ein Handbuch für Zeitgemäss Schaffende. Berlin: Verlag des Bildungsverbandes des Deutschen Buchdrucker.
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  30. 1995 “elementare typographie”. Special issue, Typographische Mitteilungen22, no.10 (1925) Anthologized inbauhaus: drucksachen, typografie, reklame, edited by Gerd Fleischmann , 333. Stuttgart: Oktagon.
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  31. Tschichold, Jan
    1995 The New Typography: A Handbook for Modern Designers. Translated by Ruari McLean . Berkeley: University of California Press.
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    1978 Dada and Surrealism Reviewed. London: Arts Council of Great Britain 1978 Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same titled, organized by and presented at the Hayward Gallery, London, January 11-March 27, 1978.
     [Google Scholar]
  2. Ardis, Ann
    . January 2013 “Towards a Theory of Periodical Studies”. Paper presented at theAnnual MLA Convention, Boston.
     [Google Scholar]
  3. Brooker, Peter , Sascha Bru , Andrew Thacker , and Christian Weikop
    eds. 2013 Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines. Vol.3. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199654291.001.0001
     https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199654291.001.0001 [Google Scholar]
  4. De Puineuf, Sonia
    2010 “A Dot on the Map: Some Remarks on the Magazine Nová Bratislava ”. Journal of Modern Periodical Studies1, no.1, 100–111. 10.1353/jmp.0.0003
     https://doi.org/10.1353/jmp.0.0003 [Google Scholar]
  5. Drucker, Johanna
    1994 The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, 1909–1923. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
     [Google Scholar]
  6. 2008 “Letterpress Language: Typography as a Medium for the Visual Representation of Language”. Leonardo17, no.1 (1984):8–16. Reprinted inLeonardo41, 1:66–74. 10.2307/1574850
     https://doi.org/10.2307/1574850 [Google Scholar]
  7. Forbes, Meghan
    2016a “In the Middle of It All: Prague, Brno, and the Avant-Garde Networks of Interwar Europe”. PhD diss., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
     [Google Scholar]
  8. Forbes, Meghan
    2016b “Advertisement as Collaboration in the Central European Magazines of the Interwar Avant-Garde”, post (March22 2016): https://post.at.moma.org/content_items/769-advertisement-as-collaboration-in-the-central-european-avant-garde-magazinesAccessedMarch 4, 2020.
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  9. ed. 2019 International Perspectives on Publishing Platforms: Image, Object, Text. London, New York: Routledge.
     [Google Scholar]
  10. Forst, Vladimír
    ed. 1985 “Artuš Černík”. InLexikon české literatury: A-G, vol.1, 445. Prague: Academia.
     [Google Scholar]
  11. Garfinkle, Deborah
    2003 “Karel Čapek’s ‘Pásmo’ and the Construction of Literary Modernity through the Art of Translation”. The Slavic and East European Journal47, no.3 (Autumn 2003):345–366.
     [Google Scholar]
  12. Grutman, Rainier
    2009 “Multilingualism”. InRoutledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies. Edited by Mona Baker and Gabriela Saldanha :182–186. London and New York: Routledge.
     [Google Scholar]
  13. Kinross, Robin
    2002 Unjustified texts: perspectives on typography. London: Hyphen Press.
     [Google Scholar]
  14. Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris) and Saugnier (Amédée Ozenfant)
    Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris) and Saugnier (Amédée Ozenfant) 1922 “Architektura a Purism/Architecture et Purisme.” Život2: 74–85.
     [Google Scholar]
  15. Mertins, Detlef , and Michael W. Jennings
    eds. 2010 G: An Avant-Garde Journal of Art, Architecture, Design, and Film 1923–1926, translated by Steven Lindberg with Margareta Ingrid Christian . Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute.
     [Google Scholar]
  16. Moholy-Nagy, László
    1995 “Die neue Typographie”. InStaatliches Bauhaus in Weimar 1919–1923Weimar-München: Bauhausverlag 1923 Anthologized inbauhaus: drucksachen, typografie, reklame, edited by Gerd Fleischmann , 14–16. Stuttgart: Oktagon.
     [Google Scholar]
  17. “Novinářská zpráva.” ReD1, no.1 (Oct. 1927):4.
     [Google Scholar]
  18. Ort, Thomas
    2013 Art and Life in Modernist Prague: Karel Čapek and His Generation, 1911–1938. New York: Palgrave. 10.1057/9781137077394
     https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137077394 [Google Scholar]
  19. Philpotts, Matthew
    2013 “Defining the Thick Journal: Periodical Codes and Common Habitus”. Paper presented at theannual MLA Convention, Boston, Jan. 4.
     [Google Scholar]
  20. Poskočil, Oskar
    . “nové typografické tendence”. ReD2, no.8 (April 1929): 255–258.
     [Google Scholar]
  21. Sayer, Derek
    2013 Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
     [Google Scholar]
  22. Soupault, Philippe
    . “Do Prahy”. ReD1, no.1 (Oct. 1927):3–4.
     [Google Scholar]
  23. Teige, Karel
    1927a “Moderní Typo”. Typografia34, no.7-9:189–198.
     [Google Scholar]
  24. 1927b “Slova, slova, slova”. Horizont1, no.1–4: 1–3, 29–32, 45–47, 70–73.
     [Google Scholar]
  25. 1929 “neue typographie”. ReD2, no.8 (April 1929):258–259.
     [Google Scholar]
  26. 1931 “Jan Tschichold v Praze”. Rozpravy Aventina6, no.18 (Jan. 1931):212.
     [Google Scholar]
  27. 1999 “Modern Typography”. InKarel Teige/1900–1951: L’Enfant Terrible of the Czech Modernist Avant-garde, edited by Eric Dluhosch and Rostislav Švácha , translated by Alexandra Büchler , 92–105. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
     [Google Scholar]
  28. Teige, Karel , et al
    1970 “U. S. Devětsil”. Pražské ponděli (Dec.6 1920) Anthologized inAvantgarda známá a neznámá. Edited by Vlašín Štěpán . Vol.1.:81–83. Praha: Svoboda.
     [Google Scholar]
  29. Tschichold, Jan
    1928 Die neue Typographie: Ein Handbuch für Zeitgemäss Schaffende. Berlin: Verlag des Bildungsverbandes des Deutschen Buchdrucker.
     [Google Scholar]
  30. 1995 “elementare typographie”. Special issue, Typographische Mitteilungen22, no.10 (1925) Anthologized inbauhaus: drucksachen, typografie, reklame, edited by Gerd Fleischmann , 333. Stuttgart: Oktagon.
     [Google Scholar]
  31. Tschichold, Jan
    1995 The New Typography: A Handbook for Modern Designers. Translated by Ruari McLean . Berkeley: University of California Press.
     [Google Scholar]
  32. Witkovsky, Matthew
    2002 “Avant-Garde and Center: Devětsil and Czech Culture, 1918–1938”. PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania.
     [Google Scholar]

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