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[[Image:Seifert_Jaroslav_Teige_Karel_eds_Devetsil_Revolucni_sbornik.jpg|thumb|258px|Jaroslav Seifert, Karel Teige (eds.), ''Devětsil: Revoluční sborník'', Prague, 1922. [[Media:Seifert_Jaroslav_Teige_Karel_eds_Devetsil_Revolucni_sbornik.pdf|Download]].]]
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[[Image:Kral_Ubu_Honzl_1928.jpg|thumb|258px|''Král Ubu'', dir. Jindřich Honzl, 1928.]]
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The Devětsil was an association of Czech avant-garde artists, founded in 1920 in Prague. From 1923 on there was also an active group in Brno. The movement discontinued its activities in 1930 (1927 in Brno).
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The '''Devětsil''' was an association of Czech avant-garde artists, founded in December 1920 in Prague. From 1923 on there was also an active group in Brno.  
  
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Founded as '''U. S. Devětsil''' (Umělecký Svaz Devětsil - Devětsil Artistic Federation), its name was changed several times. From 1925, it was called the '''Svaz moderní kultury Devětsil''' (the Devětsil Union of Modern Culture).
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The artistic output of its members was varied, but typically focused on magic realism, proletkult, and, beginning in 1923, Poetism, an artistic program formulated by [[Vítězslav Nezval]] and [[Karel Teige]].
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Founded as '''U. S. Devětsil''' (Umělecký Svaz Devětsil) [Devětsil Artistic Federation], its name was changed several times. From 1925, it was called the '''Svaz moderní kultury Devětsil''' [the Devětsil Union of Modern Culture].
  
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The group was very active in organizing the Czech art scene of the period. Members published several art magazines - ''[[ReD]]'' (Revue Devětsilu), ''Disk'' and ''Pásmo'', as well as occasional anthologies (most importantly ''Devětsil'' and ''Život'') and organized several exhibitions.
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The group was active in organizing the Czech art scene of the period. Members published several magazines - ''[[ReD]] (Revue Devětsilu)'', ''[[Disk]]'' and ''[[Pásmo]]'', as well as almanacs (most importantly ''Devětsil'' and ''Život'', 1922) and organized several exhibitions.
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The members included artists, photographers, architects, theoreticans, poets, writers, actors, musicians and film directors, such as [[Karel Teige]], [[Jaroslav Seifert]], [[Vladislav Vančura]], Adolf Hoffmeister, [[Jindřich Štýrský]], [[Toyen]], [[Jaroslav Rösler]], [[Bedřich Václavek]], [[Konstantin Biebl]], [[Vítězslav Nezval]], Jiří Voskovec, Jan Werich, Jindřich Honzl, [[E.F. Burian]], and many others.
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In 1927 the Brno section discontinued its activities, followed by the Prague section in 1930.
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==Publications==
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(in Czech unless noted otherwise)
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===Magazines===
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[[Image:Disk_1_1923.jpg|thumb|185px|''Disk'' 1 (1923). 30 x 21 cm. [[Media:Disk_1_1923.pdf|PDF]] (30 MB).]]
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[[Image:ReD_II-8_Apr_1929.jpg|thumb|185px|''ReD'' 2:8 (Apr 1929): "Foto Film Typo". [[Media:ReD_II-8_April_1929_Foto_Film_Typo.pdf|PDF]].]]
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* ''[[Disk|Disk: internacionální revue]]'', 2 issues, eds. Jaromír Krejcar, Jaroslav Seifert and Karel Teige, Prague, 1923-25.
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* ''[[Pásmo|Pásmo: revue internationale moderne]]'', 24 numbers, ed. Artuš Černík, Brno, 1924-26.
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* ''[[ReD|ReD: měsíčník pro moderní kulturu]]'', 30 numbers, ed. Karel Teige, Prague, 1927-31.
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===Almanacs===
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[[Image:Seifert_Jaroslav_Teige_Karel_eds_Devetsil_Revolucni_sbornik.jpg|thumb|185px|Jaroslav Seifert, Karel Teige (eds.), ''Devětsil: Revoluční sborník'', Prague, 1922, [[Media:Seifert_Jaroslav_Teige_Karel_eds_Devetsil_Revolucni_sbornik.pdf|PDF]] (150 MB), [http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/revolun-sbornk-devtsil JPG].]]
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[[Image:Zivot_2_1922.jpg|thumb|185px|Jaromír Krejcar (ed.), ''Život: výtvarný sborník, 2'', 1922, [http://bibliothequekandinsky.centrepompidou.fr/imagesbk/RP216%5C002/M5050_X0031_PER_P02161922002.pdf PDF] (225 MB).]]
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[[Image:Fronta_1927.jpg|thumb|185px|Halas, Průša, Rossmann, Václavek (eds.), ''Fronta: mezinárodní sborník soudobé aktivity'', 1927, [http://bibliothequekandinsky.centrepompidou.fr/imagesbk/FondsDestribatsP258/001/M5050_X0031_DES_P02581927001.pdf PDF] (344 MB).]]
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* Jaroslav Seifert, Karel Teige (eds.), ''[[Media:Seifert_Jaroslav_Teige_Karel_eds_Devetsil_Revolucni_sbornik.pdf|Devětsil: Revoluční sborník]]'', Prague: Večernice, 1922, 208 pp, [http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/revolun-sbornk-devtsil JPG].
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* Jaromír Krejcar (ed.), ''[http://bibliothequekandinsky.centrepompidou.fr/imagesbk/RP216%5C002/M5050_X0031_PER_P02161922002.pdf Život: výtvarný sborník, 2]'', Prague, 1922.
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* Halas, Průša, Rossmann, Václavek (eds.), ''[http://bibliothequekandinsky.centrepompidou.fr/imagesbk/FondsDestribatsP258/001/M5050_X0031_DES_P02581927001.pdf Fronta: mezinárodní sborník soudobé aktivity]'', Brno, 1927, 203 pp.
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===Anthologies===
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* Stěpán Vlašín (ed.), ''[http://www.ucl.cas.cz/edicee/index.php?expand=/antologie/avantgarda/AVA2 Avantgarda známá a neznámá, 3: Vrchol a krize poetismu 1925-1928]'', Prague: Svoboda, 1972.
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==Literature==
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* Jaroslav Bílek, Oleg Sus, [http://digilib.phil.muni.cz/bitstream/handle/11222.digilib/108533/D_ScientiaeLitterarum_13-1966-1_10.pdf?sequence=1 "O vzniku brněnského Devětsilu (z dějin avantgardní umělecké organizace)"], ''Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity'' 15:D13, 1966, pp 117-124. {{cz}}
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* Peter Drews, ''[http://digi20.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/fs1/object/display/bsb00056998_00001.html Devetsil und Poetismus: künstlerische Theorie und Praxis der tschechischen literarischen Avantgarde am Beispiel Vitezslav Nezvals, Jaroslav Seiferts und Jiri Wolkers]'', Munich: Sagner, 1975, 333 pp. {{de}}
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* Iva Gajdošíková, [http://digilib.phil.muni.cz/bitstream/handle/11222.digilib/114188/O_Cinematologica_02-2005-1_6.pdf?sequence=1 "Avantgarda jako kritika, akce a politika : politická orientace brněnské avantgardy - její projevy a důsledky"], in ''Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity'' 2:O2, 2005, pp 95-126. {{cz}}
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* Jeanette Fabianová, [http://cl.ff.cuni.cz/slovoasmysl/downloady/sas4.pdf "'Ruku v ruce s básnictvím.' Roman Jakobson a Umělecký svaz Devětsil"], trans. Petr Mareš, ''Slovo a smysl / Word & Sense'' 2:4 (2005), pp 74-95. {{cz}}
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* Aurèle Letricot, [http://www.academia.edu/1062925/ "Devetsil et ses revues. l'avant-garde du Toit de l'Europe"], ''La revue des revues'' 40 (2007). {{fr}}
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* Thomas G. Winner, ''[http://www.thomasgwinnerczechavantgarde.com/uploads/5/8/4/3/5843028/tgwinnerczechavantgardedec2010.pdf The Czech Avant-Garde Literary Movement Between the Two World Wars]'', c2010, 206 pp. {{en}}
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* Thomas Ort, "Art ≠ Life: The Čapek Generation and Devětsil in Interwar Czechoslovakia", in Ort, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9865 Art and Life in Modernist Prague: Karel Čapek and his Generation, 1911-1938]'', Palgrave, 2013, pp 119-151. {{en}}
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** in Ort, ''Umění a život v modernistické Praze. Karel Čapek a jeho generace, 1911-1938'', trans. Tomáš Míka, Prague: Argo, 2015. {{cz}}
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* Petr Ingerle, Lucie Česálková (eds.), ''Brněnský Devětsil: multimediální přesahy umělecké avantgardy'', Brno: Moravian Gallery in Brno, 2014. Exhibition catalogue. [http://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/t31.0-8/s960x960/10682195_840661209290342_2834854059048569588_o.jpg] {{cz}}
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* [http://is.muni.cz/thesis/prace_na_stejne_tema.pl?furl=%2Fth%2F262129%2Fff_b%2F;so=nx;ks=devetsil Theses on Devětsil from Masaryk University] {{cz}}
  
 
==See also==
 
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* [[ReD]]
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* [[Karel Teige]]  
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* [[Czech_Republic#Avant-garde]]
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* [[Czech Republic#Avant-garde]]
  
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==External links==
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==Links==
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* [http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Author?author=Devětsil Devětsil at Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library]
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* [http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Author?author=Devětsil Devětsil in Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library]
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* [http://www.moravska-galerie.cz/moravska-galerie/vystavy-a-program/aktualni-vystavy/2014/brnensky_devetsil.aspx Brno Devětsil: Multimedia Overlaps of the Artistic Avant-Garde], exhibition at Moravian Gallery in Brno, curated by Petr Ingerle, Nov 2014-Apr 2015. [http://facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10155189120830131.1073741888.312236305130]
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* http://artslexikon.cz/index.php/Devětsil
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dev%C4%9Btsil Devětsil at Wikipedia]
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dev%C4%9Btsil Devětsil at Wikipedia]
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Král Ubu, dir. Jindřich Honzl, 1928.

The Devětsil was an association of Czech avant-garde artists, founded in December 1920 in Prague. From 1923 on there was also an active group in Brno.

Founded as U. S. Devětsil (Umělecký Svaz Devětsil) [Devětsil Artistic Federation], its name was changed several times. From 1925, it was called the Svaz moderní kultury Devětsil [the Devětsil Union of Modern Culture].

The group was active in organizing the Czech art scene of the period. Members published several magazines - ReD (Revue Devětsilu), Disk and Pásmo, as well as almanacs (most importantly Devětsil and Život, 1922) and organized several exhibitions.

The members included artists, photographers, architects, theoreticans, poets, writers, actors, musicians and film directors, such as Karel Teige, Jaroslav Seifert, Vladislav Vančura, Adolf Hoffmeister, Jindřich Štýrský, Toyen, Jaroslav Rösler, Bedřich Václavek, Konstantin Biebl, Vítězslav Nezval, Jiří Voskovec, Jan Werich, Jindřich Honzl, E.F. Burian, and many others.

In 1927 the Brno section discontinued its activities, followed by the Prague section in 1930.

Publications

(in Czech unless noted otherwise)

Magazines

Disk 1 (1923). 30 x 21 cm. PDF (30 MB).
ReD 2:8 (Apr 1929): "Foto Film Typo". PDF.

Almanacs

Jaroslav Seifert, Karel Teige (eds.), Devětsil: Revoluční sborník, Prague, 1922, PDF (150 MB), JPG.
Jaromír Krejcar (ed.), Život: výtvarný sborník, 2, 1922, PDF (225 MB).
Halas, Průša, Rossmann, Václavek (eds.), Fronta: mezinárodní sborník soudobé aktivity, 1927, PDF (344 MB).

Anthologies

Literature

See also

Links

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