13 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 19 NOTES ON STYLE 23 INTRODUCTION A Poetist Politics of Work and Play Devetsil's Foundations Forging Further Networks through Print Chapter Summaries 77 CHAPTER I Design in Process: Photomechanical Reproduction and the Tools of the Press as the Building Blocks of Avant-Garde Print 97 Stavba a báseo -- A Retrospective Summary Technologies of Circulation The Typecase as Source of Text and Image 130 Zivot 2 and Revolucní sborník -- Early Outputs Process Blocks Visualize Networks The Trace of the Printer's Hand 161 CHAPTER II Pictures as Poetry: The Development of Poetism through the Text and Image of Devetsil's Early Publications 173 Disk 1 -- Devetsil's First (Not-)Periodical A Circle of Images in Print and on View Pictures as Graphic Language Making Poems out of Pictures 198 Pantomima -- Poetist Play Cut-and-Paste Clownerie What Is a Picture Poem? 222 Na vlnách TSF -- A New Wave of Typographic Experiment From Picture Poem to Typographic Poetics (A Printer's Nightmare?) A Poetist Circus 237 CHAPTER III Films on Paper: Quotation and the Genre of the Film Poem as an Economical Cinema 249 Film -- Photogenie in Translation Photogenie Becomes Fotogenie Copying Pictures 266 Disk -- 2 Film Poems in Action Poetry as Graphic Craft Photogenie and the Film Poem 278 Pásmo vol. 1 -- Cinematic Expression in Collage Mechanics of Montage Typography, Photography, Film More Film Poems 303 CHAPTER IV The Page Is a Stage: Devetsil's Osvobozené Divadlo and Iterations of Performance in Print 329 Roztocené jeviste -- Proletarian on Paper A Working Theater Deep Dive for Visual References Staging Exchange 354 Pasmo vol. 2 -- Osvobozene Divadlo Enters Left Platforms of Influence and Association Local Adaptation and Innovation 371 ReD vol. 1 -- Synthesis of Art and Life Performing Poetism 389 CHAPTER V Typophoto and Typomontage: The Apex of Devetsil Design 412 ReD vol. 2 -- Photo-Synthesis of Late Devetsil Talking about (New) Typography 429 S lodi jez dovazi caj a kavu -- Typomontage and the Deconstruction of Abstraction The Printer and Poetism Building Pictures from Type Antipodal Politics in Poetry and Pictures 463 Postscript 471 BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX.