some upcoming, present & previous publications …
books:
Technologies for the Revolution: The Czech Avant-Garde in Print (Prague: Artefactum & Karolinum Press, distributed by University of Chicago Press, 2025).
Zdeněk Koubek, The Story of a World Record Woman (currently seeking publisher).
- My translation from the Czech of this memoir, originally published serially in the Prague Illustrated Reporter in 1936, is referenced and quoted in Michael Waters, The Other Olympians. Read an excerpt in The New Yorker.
International Perspectives on Publishing Platforms: Image, Object, Text (London: Routledge, 2019).
catalogue and monograph essays:
“Shadows on Rock and Water,” “Journeying in Yugoslavia,” “Wartime Absurdities,” and “Marginal Notes on Moholy-Nagy,” in Lucia Moholy: Exposures (Prague: Kunsthalle, distributed by Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2024). Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title, organized and presented at Kunsthalle Prague, May 30-October 28, 2024; and Fotostiftung Schweiz, 2025.
“A Guidebook to Paris and its Environs,” in Toyen: The Dreaming Rebel (Prague: National Gallery, 2021). Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title, organized and presented at the Waldstein Riding School of the National Gallery, Prague, April 9-August 15, 2021; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, September 24, 2021-February 13, 2022; and Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, March 25-July 24, 2022.
“’My Mind is Full of Ships’: The Life of Alice Trumbull Mason as Glimpsed Through Her Letters,” in Alice Trumbull Mason: Pioneer of Abstraction (New York: Rizzoli, 2020): 223-229. Republished in Literary Hub, November 2021.
“Władysław Strzemiński’s Theory of Vision,” in Une avant-garde polonaise: Katarzyna Kobro et Wladislaw Strzeminski (Paris: Skira, 2018). Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title, organized and presented at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Oct. 24, 2018-Jan. 14, 2019.
a few articles in print:
“Míra Holzbachová: Embodying the Avant-Garde,” in Cannabilizing the Avant-Garde: Dada Techniques in Central and Eastern Europe // Brill, 2024
“Devětsil and Dada: A Poetics of Play in the Interwar Czech Avant-Garde,” in ArtMargins // Fall 2020
“’To reach over the border’: An International Conversation Between the Bauhaus and Devětsil,” in Umění/Art, Journal of the Institute of Art History in Prague, 64:3-4 (Dec. 2016): 291-303.
online:
for Literary Hub
“On Unjustly Forgotten American Abstract Artist Alice Trumbull Mason” // November 4, 2021
“The Magic and Risk of a Handwritten Letter” // September 7, 2017
for Hyperallergic
“An Artist Transforms Her House into a Living Museum” // January 8, 2019
“Revisiting a Czech Artist’s Collages of Human Cruelty, 50 Years After the Prague Spring” // August 21, 2018
“William Kentridge Incants Kurt Schwitters’s Iconic Dada Sound Poem” // November 6, 2017
for post : notes on a global context
“Underground Publishing in the Last Decade of East Germany” // August 14, 2019
“Magazines as Sites of Intersection: A New Look at the Bauhaus and Vkhutemas” // September 26, 2018
“Wladyslaw Strzeminiski’s Theory of Vision” (introduction to translated excerpt by Klara Kemp-Welch) // May 30, 2018
“Advertisement as Collaboration in the Central European Avant-Garde Magazines” // March 22, 2016
for Los Angeles Review of Books
“Hrabalesque: A Guide to Rambling On” // July 14, 2014
for Music & Literature
“Mary Jo Bang’s A Doll for Throwing” // August 15, 2017
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