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April 9, 2013

Czech Book Covers of the 1920’s and 30’s


George Bernard Shaw Obráceni kapitána Brassbounda [Captain Brassbound’s Conversion], 1932.

The Smithsonian has an engaging collection of Czech avant-garde book cover designs from the 1920s and 30s. The collection can be browsed online by designer, author, publication date, or by style: constructivism, poetism, surrealism and socialist realism.