Z. K., HOFFMEISTER, A., PELC, A., STEPHEN, TRIER, W. Jesters in Earnest
Z. K., HOFFMEISTER, A., PELC, A, STEPHEN, TRIER, W., Jesters in Earnest. With a preface by David Low. London: John Murray. 1944. 4to. First edition. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black to the spine and upper board, in the excellent dust jacket. Illustrated in colour throughout. An association copy, presented to the artist and curator, Raymond Lintott at the Atkinson Art Gallery, London, by the Director of the Czechoslovak Institute, Josef Knap, with letter stapled in to second blank. A very good book, the cloth a little dulled with a few light marks, but the binding tight, the contents usually fine with some faint scattered foxing to endpapers. The scarce wraparound dust jacket designed by Hoffmeister very good, unclipped (10s 6d net) with several closed tears to joints and some edges, rubbed in places with a little loss to the spine head and tail, but nevertheless charming. Scarce.
A glorious anthology of the works of five Czechoslovakian cartoonists and their successful attempts to 'fling their ink in the tyrant's face'. The work opens on short biographies of the five artists, and sumptuous colour illustrations throughout. As Low points out in his preface, the work of cartoonists in the face of war and tyranny is twofold: the wit and charm of political debasement, and the translation of thoughts into expression as art. The results are outstanding. The cartoons are, of course, also precursors to the slew of Czech artists and illustrators who catapulted the country to lead the way in animation.
Z. K., HOFFMEISTER, A., PELC, A, STEPHEN, TRIER, W., Jesters in Earnest. With a preface by David Low. London: John Murray. 1944. 4to. First edition. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black to the spine and upper board, in the excellent dust jacket. Illustrated in colour throughout. An association copy, presented to the artist and curator, Raymond Lintott at the Atkinson Art Gallery, London, by the Director of the Czechoslovak Institute, Josef Knap, with letter stapled in to second blank. A very good book, the cloth a little dulled with a few light marks, but the binding tight, the contents usually fine with some faint scattered foxing to endpapers. The scarce wraparound dust jacket designed by Hoffmeister very good, unclipped (10s 6d net) with several closed tears to joints and some edges, rubbed in places with a little loss to the spine head and tail, but nevertheless charming. Scarce.
A glorious anthology of the works of five Czechoslovakian cartoonists and their successful attempts to 'fling their ink in the tyrant's face'. The work opens on short biographies of the five artists, and sumptuous colour illustrations throughout. As Low points out in his preface, the work of cartoonists in the face of war and tyranny is twofold: the wit and charm of political debasement, and the translation of thoughts into expression as art. The results are outstanding. The cartoons are, of course, also precursors to the slew of Czech artists and illustrators who catapulted the country to lead the way in animation.
Z. K., HOFFMEISTER, A., PELC, A, STEPHEN, TRIER, W., Jesters in Earnest. With a preface by David Low. London: John Murray. 1944. 4to. First edition. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black to the spine and upper board, in the excellent dust jacket. Illustrated in colour throughout. An association copy, presented to the artist and curator, Raymond Lintott at the Atkinson Art Gallery, London, by the Director of the Czechoslovak Institute, Josef Knap, with letter stapled in to second blank. A very good book, the cloth a little dulled with a few light marks, but the binding tight, the contents usually fine with some faint scattered foxing to endpapers. The scarce wraparound dust jacket designed by Hoffmeister very good, unclipped (10s 6d net) with several closed tears to joints and some edges, rubbed in places with a little loss to the spine head and tail, but nevertheless charming. Scarce.
A glorious anthology of the works of five Czechoslovakian cartoonists and their successful attempts to 'fling their ink in the tyrant's face'. The work opens on short biographies of the five artists, and sumptuous colour illustrations throughout. As Low points out in his preface, the work of cartoonists in the face of war and tyranny is twofold: the wit and charm of political debasement, and the translation of thoughts into expression as art. The results are outstanding. The cartoons are, of course, also precursors to the slew of Czech artists and illustrators who catapulted the country to lead the way in animation.