Meghan Forbes is a writer, translator, and curator. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, taught at the University of Texas at Austin, and has held postdoctoral fellowships at The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
""Just as Meghan Forbes shows the printed output of Devětsil to be revolutionary for transmitting the impulses of the pan-European avant-garde movement into a cooperation with local printers, we can claim a comparable revolutionary force in her own book, which situates Devětsil publications within transnational networks."" * Karel Císar, professor, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague * ""This book is an extremely well-researched study on the printing and image reproduction practices of the Devětsil movement. It makes use of ample documentation to bring a new perspective to the practical functioning of the Czech avant-garde and its network."" * Anna Pravdová, curator, National Gallery Prague * ""Multidisciplinary scholar Forbes’s broad and deep study of the Czech avant-garde group Devětsil is a model of scholarship, bringing new insights into the ideas, sociopolitical context, and material culture of its era."" * Jennifer Tobias, librarian and Modernist scholar; coauthor of Extra Bold *