The artist, photographer and poet Jindřich Štyrský had a lifelong artistic collaboration with Toyen. He joined Devětsil with her in 1923 and traveled to Paris with her in 1925. His cover for the 1924 edition of Nezval's Pantomima offers an example of the "Pictorial Poems" created by several Devětsil artists at the time. These combined photomontage and text in an attempt to replace painting with art they saw as more suited to the modern age. The other examples here represent collaborations between Štyrský and Toyen and display a similar style. The exception is Seifert's Slavik Zpívá Špatně published in 1926, which represents an artistic movement developed by Štyrský and Toyen while they were in Paris called Artificialism. Artificialism marked a move toward more abstraction by Štyrský and Toyen. For this cover they used stencils and applied paint through screens to create images that were divorced from concrete reality.


  1. Vítězslav Nezval, Pantomima : Poesie (Pantomime). Prague: Ústřední studentské knihkupectví a nakl., 1924
  2. Vítězslav Nezval, Falešný Mariáš (False Poker). Prague: Odeon, 1925
  3. H.G. Wells, Tono-Bungay : Román (Tono-Bungay : A Novel). Prague: A. Srdce, 1925
  4. Vítězslav Nezval, Menší Růžová Zahrada : Poesie (A Smaller Rose Garden). Prague : Odeon, 1926
  5. Jaroslav Seifert, Slavik Zpívá Špatně : Poesie (The Nightingale Sings Badly). Prague: Odeon, 1926

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