Karel Teige
Devětsil. Revoluční sborník, Prague: Nakaldatelství Večernice V. Vortel, 1922
Otakar Mrkvička; Jaroslav Seifert
Samá láska. Verše, Prague: Nkaldatelství Večernice, 1923
L. Blatný, Petr Pistelka
Sborník literární skupiny, Vyškov na Moravê: F. Obziny, 1923
Bedřich Václavek, František Halas, A. Cerník
Pásmo. Revue internacionale moderne, 1st year, no. 1, Brno: Tiskne Ant. Odehnal, 1924
Louis Delluc; Karel Teige
Filmová dramata, Prague: Ladisla v Kuncíř, 1925
Host, 6th year, no. 1, Prague: Tiskem Středočeské Knihtiskárny, n.d. [1926-1927?]
Karel Teige
Red. Měsínik pro moderní kulturu, 1st year, no. 1, Prague: Odeon, October 1927
Karel Teige
Stavba a báseň. Umění dnes a zítra 1919-1927, Prague: Vaněk & Votava, 1927
Zdenek Rossmann
Fronta. Mezinárodni sbornik soudobé aktivity, Brno: Fronta, 1927
E. F. Burian; Karel Šourek
Jazz, Praga: Aventinum, 1928
Otakar Mrkvička; J. Hora
Plán. Revue pro literaturu, uměni a vědu, no. 1, Prague: Fr, Borový, 1929
Ladislav Sutnar
Žijeme. Obrákový magazin dnešní doby orgán Svazu československého díla, 1st year, no. 1, Prague: Družstevní Práce, April 1931
Ladislav Sutnar, Karel Herain, Ladislav Žák
O bydlení, Prague: Svaz ceskoslovenského díla, 1932
Zdenek Rossmann
Písmo a fotografie v rekalmě, Olomouc: Index, 1938
300 publications.
In 1918, due to the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after the First World War, Czechs, Slovaks and Rusyns joined forces to form the First Czechoslovak Republic. The state enjoyed stability across its borders for 20 years, from 1938, until conflicts with neighbouring countries resulted in a new period of border restructuring and, finally, the annexation of a large part of the territory to Hitler’s Germany.
These two decades of relative stability created a climate conducive to the assimilation, exploration and development of avant-garde movements in the country. Thus, the Czech avant-garde began to acquire its own characteristics, which took shape through extensive production of publications, in which graphic design, typography and design in general became its hallmarks.
Archivo Lafuente brings together a collection of over 300 books and magazines that are key to the context of the aforementioned avant-garde in the Interwar period. The collection of publications spans a period starting in 1915 until the Second World War, including works by artists of such calibre as Karel Capek, Otakar Mrkicka, Vitezlav Nezval, Ladislav Sutnar and Karel Teige, among others.