Abeceda = alphabet / the Wolfsonian - FIU.

Title & Author:

Abeceda = alphabet / the Wolfsonian - FIU.

Publication:

Description:

1 videocassette (approximately 8 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.

Notes:
"Produced by the Wolfsonian - Florida International University in conjonction with the exhibition 'Dreams and disillusion: Karel Teige and the Czech avant-garde' (2001)"--Credits
Dancer and choreographer, Elaine Wright, recitation, Jiri Lamberk.
VHS.
In Czech.

Summary:

A video of the Wolfsonian's reinterpretation of Teige's ABECEDA, performance/book project with the dancer miming the letters of the alphabet. "Based on Abeceda, a 1922 cycle of poems by Vítězslav Nezval that inspired a 1926 performance and collaborative publication by Nezval, Teige, dancer/choreographer Milča Mayerová, and photographer Karel Paspa"--Credits

Subject:

Nezval, Vítězslav, 1900-1958. Abeceda.
Teige, Karel, 1900-1951.
Teige, Karel, 1900-1951 Exhibitions.
Nezval, Vítězslav, 1900-1958 Abeceda.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Czechoslovakia.
Performance art Czech Republic 20th century.
Alphabet Poetry.
Alphabets in art.
Letter-pictures Czechoslovakia.
Alphabet Poésie.
Peintures lettristes Tchécoslovaquie.
Alphabet.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Letter-pictures.
Performance art.
Czech Republic.
Czechoslovakia.
Czech Artists.
Visual poetry.
Dance.
Czech Architectural critics.

Form/genre:

Video recordings.
VHS (TM)
Videocassettes.
Videotapes.
Exhibition catalogs.
Poetry.
Video recordings (physical artifacts)

Added entries:

Teige, Karel, 1900-1951.
Nezval, Vítězslav, 1900-1958.
Mayerová, Milča, 1901-1977.
Wright, Elaine.
Lamberk, Jiří, 1948-
Wolfsonian-Florida International University.

Alphabet
Subtitle from cassette label: From Dreams and disillusion : Karel Teige and the Czech avant-garde

Holdings:

Location: Library main av 248846
Call No.: NA2599.8 T263 A2 2000
Status: Available

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