[AMERICA THROUGH CZECH EYES] Ze zemÄ mrakodrapů: obrazky a dojmy [From the land of skyscrapers: pictures and impressions]
by OsiÄka, AntonÃn, Lidka OsiÄková, and Ladislav Süss, illustrator
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About This Item
OsiÄka (1888-1949) was a Czech scholar and writer who earned his Ph.D. at Northwestern University and wrote a number of books about life and culture in the United States. This book, co-authored with his wife, is a light-hearted series of impressions about American daily life, many of them with a left-leaning orientation, with titles such as "The noon break of an American worker," "How they drank in America," "The American movies" or "Central Park in the winter." With five delightful drawings by Ladislav Süss, who along with Karel Teige was one of the founding members of the Czech avant-garde formation DevÄtsil, showing urban scenery in New York, a movie theatre in Chicago, a woman barber and an "American man" pushing a child in a stroller.
As of January 2024, KVK, OCLC show five copies in North America. OsiÄka (1888-1949) was a Czech scholar and writer who earned his Ph.D. at Northwestern University and wrote a number of books about life and culture in the United States. This book, co-authored with his wife, is a light-hearted series of impressions about American daily life, many of them with a left-leaning orientation, with titles such as "The noon break of an American worker," "How they drank in America," "The American movies" or "Central Park in the winter." With five delightful drawings by Ladislav Süss, who along with Karel Teige was one of the founding members of the Czech avant-garde formation DevÄtsil, showing urban scenery in New York, a movie theatre in Chicago, a woman barber and an "American man" pushing a child in a stroller.
As of January 2024, KVK, OCLC show five copies in North America.
As of January 2024, KVK, OCLC show five copies in North America. OsiÄka (1888-1949) was a Czech scholar and writer who earned his Ph.D. at Northwestern University and wrote a number of books about life and culture in the United States. This book, co-authored with his wife, is a light-hearted series of impressions about American daily life, many of them with a left-leaning orientation, with titles such as "The noon break of an American worker," "How they drank in America," "The American movies" or "Central Park in the winter." With five delightful drawings by Ladislav Süss, who along with Karel Teige was one of the founding members of the Czech avant-garde formation DevÄtsil, showing urban scenery in New York, a movie theatre in Chicago, a woman barber and an "American man" pushing a child in a stroller.
As of January 2024, KVK, OCLC show five copies in North America.
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- Bookseller
- Penka Rare Books and Archives (DE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54133
- Title
- [AMERICA THROUGH CZECH EYES] Ze zemÄ mrakodrapů: obrazky a dojmy [From the land of skyscrapers: pictures and impressions]
- Author
- OsiÄka, AntonÃn, Lidka OsiÄková, and Ladislav Süss, illustrator
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Keywords
- czech, czechoslovak, america, americana, avantgarde, avant-garde, african, american, afro, race, racial
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