Josef Bartuska (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Sq. Octavo 21.5x17.5 cm., wrappers, 68 (xii) pp., loose in folio cover as issued. Josef Bartuska (1898-1963) designed the abstract cover and provided two original woodcuts for this Festschrift celebrating ten years of Vltava, a catholic study group in Ceske Budejovice where the Skupina Linie, a group of local poets, painters, and dramatists would arise as a major independent avant-garde in the First Republic. Bartuska (1898-1963) was a key figure in that development. was a painter, poet, theater and set designer, and teacher. Most of the participants in the Linie group were local teachers in the humanities. Bartuska also offers poetry extolling the Southern Czech landscape and nature and other poems here. Other contributors include Frantisek Duha, Karel Straka, L. Mayerova, M. Ratajova, X. Pospisil. Ex-coll. Josef Kubasta (1876-1940) Catholic priest and member of the Vltava group who contributed to founding the Jihoceská vedecká Knihovna (Southern Czech Science Library). This work is rare, with only one institutional holding outside of the Czech Republic (Northwestern).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Quarto 27x20 cm., textured decorated wrappers, 49(4) pp. Second edition of 200 numbered copies, this second edition with Bartuska's artwork. (The End of Celebrations) Otokar ika (1907-1963) was a poet from Břeclav who collaborated with Josef Bartuka and Linie Group in České Budějovice. Bartuka (1898-1963) is emerging as a foremost book artist, photographer and poet who was a central figure in the Skupina Linie organization; he pioneered new graphic design several decades ahead of his time. In the present work he contributed cover and four drawings. Three North American library holdings (PennState, UMI, Northwestern).…

A book of poems and drawings of Josef Bartuska (1898 - 1963) - the founder of a Czech avant-garde group LINIE (1931-39). Includes about 20 fine black-and-white illustrations by Bartuska - on the subject of coming world war. Typography, and original wrappers, printed in black and red on cream stock, designed by a Czech stage designer Miroslav Kouril (1911-1984) . Praha, Jaroslav Kohoutek, 1937. Blok series. Soft cover with original wrappers, 13 x 19 cm, 46 pp. Very good condition, slightly sunned, specially around the spine, spine little scratched, interior clean and unworn; see photo. Book Language/s: Czech. …

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Large octavo 18.5 x 12 cm., wrappers, 20pp., printed on hand-made paper in an edition of 200. Book design, typography and three illustrations by Bartuska in the sixth of the Edice Gemini series. Exquisite bibliophile production for the poems of Ruená iková. A fine copy. Worldcat finds this in 5 North American libraries. …

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Quarto (31 x 22.5 cm), wrappers, (viii) 20 linocuts, in an edition of 100 copies, signed by both artists. Josef Bartuska (1898-1963) and Oldrich Nouza (1903-1974) were two multi-talented members of the Linie Group which they co-founded in Ceske Budejovice in 1931. The group operated as a cooperative of twelve members who contributed to a plethora of arts and educational projects there, and flourished through 1939. Bartuska was a poet, journalist, critic, editor, author of poetic opera librettos and film scripts, photographer, painter, graphic artist, theorist, stage designer, musician, amateur film-maker and teacher. A number of his books have hand-painted graphics; his graphic designs of the 1930s anticipated the flavor graphic design in postwar Europe and the USA. Nouza was a poet, painter, photographer, teacher and journalist. Together with Bartuska he wrote the manifesto published in 1931 titled Poesie imaginerniho prostoru (The Poetry of Imaginary Space). He also published with Bartuska a series of artist books title Infinitivy (Infinitives) Kornout (Cone) and in 1934 the twenty linocuts of the present book. Like Bartuska, his most innovative and productive period ranged from the 1920s through the 30s, where he excelled in new photography and painting. All publications of the Linea Group are very scarce, published in limited quantity and moreover became the focus of suppression under the Nazis; many publications were destroyed. The present work is a major highlight of the publishing ventures there, in an isographic style, unique. Uncommon, with only two libraries holding copies in North America (Northwestern, Yale). Crisp and in near fine condition. Rare. References: Andel: The avant-garde across media: Josef Bartuska and the Linea Group 1931-1939. Refs: Avant-garde Across Media, Obecný Dum, 2004, passim. Birgus: The Czech Photographic Avant-garde 1918-1948. Signed by Illustrator(s).…