ABECEDA: a jazz-age alphabet from Prague

Karel Teige's 1926 photomontage designs for the alphabet, choreographed in 1926 by the Czech dancer Milca Mayerová, are a uniquely elegant and witty invention, and one of the enduring masterpieces of Czech modernism
  
  


Czech Alphabet postcards: Czech Alphabet postcard letter G
Czech Alphabet postcard letter G
Photograph: Redstone Press Photograph: guardian.co.uk
Czech Alphabet postcards: Czech alphabet postcard letter U
Czech alphabet postcard letter U
Photograph: Redstone Press Photograph: guardian.co.uk
Czech Alphabet postcard 2: Czech alphabet postcard letter A
Czech alphabet postcard letter A
Photograph: Redstone Press Photograph: guardian.co.uk
Czech Alphabet postcards: Czech alphabet postcard letter R
Czech alphabet postcard letter R
Photograph: Redstone Press Photograph: guardian.co.uk
Czech Alphabet postcard 2: Czech alphabet postcard letter D
Czech alphabet postcard letter D
Photograph: Redstone Press Photograph: guardian.co.uk
Czech Alphabet postcard 2: Czech alphabet postcard letter I
Czech alphabet postcard letter I
Photograph: Redstone Press Photograph: guardian.co.uk
Czech Alphabet postcard 2: Czech alphabet postcard letter A
Czech alphabet postcard letter A Photograph: guardian.co.uk
Czech Alphabet postcard 2: Czech alphabet postcard letter N
Czech alphabet postcard letter N
Photograph: Redstone Press Photograph: guardian.co.uk
 

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