Holík, Miloš and Jaromír Lhotský, artist.

[CZECH AVANT-GARDE – PHOTO-MONTAGE] Magazin ztřeštěného žurnalisty [The magazine of a lunatic journalist].

Brno: Joža Jícha, [1930]. Octavo (22.4 × 15.4 cm). Original pictorial photo-illustrated wrappers; 45, [2] pp. Six drawings by Richard Zemánek. Signed by the author to first leaf. Spine somewhat worn and chipped; still about very good. Item #52782

Illustrated by Richard Zemánek and with an elaborate photo-montage wrapper design printed in blue and orange, by Jaromír Lhotský, about whom we are unable to find any information. Reviewing similar photo-montage compositions, Jindřich Toman notes that "European visualization of contemporary America again and again returned to the skyscraper image, which eventuelly degenerated into an endlessly rehashed visual cliche. While in the 1920s, John Heartfield gave the skyscraper a socio-critical reading, mainly on his covers to Sinclair's novels, others saw here a fairly unproblematic way of celebrating technological and economic progress, including modern architecture" (Photo-Montage in Print, p. 137).

A bizarre outpouring of prose poetry and verse with a futurist and almost Dadaist sensibility, including a "Song of the motorcycle" and a piece entitled "Black mass." Little is known about the author, a journalist from Brno, Moravia.

Very rare, with only one copy known to have emerged in the trade in recent years (an imperfect, rebound copy).

Not in Toman, Photo-Montage in Print.

As of October 2024, KVK, OCLC only show the copy at the Czech National Library.

Price: €800.00

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