Josef Čapek | Seeing a book
16 July – 27 September 2009
Museum of Modern Art | Cabinet, Salon
Josef Čapek is one of the most prominent representatives of Czech book culture in the 20th century. Čapek’s book art includes hundreds of book covers and illustrations, his characteristic means of artistic expression being linocut. He developed his own dynamic style applying modern contraction and putting emphasis on the aspect of utility, as he perceived the book as an object of everyday use. The collection of 300 books is accompanied by some 60 pictures and graphic prints.
Photo Gallery
Beggar
from an album of ten prints 1918
French poetry of the new era
1920
Games with people and things
1927
On the banks of the River Villette
1920
Lord of the World
1925
Drunkard
(sketch), undated
