Mentions that Hoffmeister (1902-1973) fled from Czechoslovakia in 1939 to USA and after WWII became Ambassador to France from 1948-1951 and subsequently Professor of Art at the Prague Art Academy. His work overlaps the border of Art and spreads into cartoon, advertising and related fields. "He was the first artist to use typography as a total compositional medium regardless of the meaning of the actual words, concentrating on the purely visual image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.