The century of Modern design
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The Stewart Collection -in Montreal—celebrates its thirtieth anniversary in 2010. The Collection incorporates iconic furniture, ceramics, textiles, posters, graphic art, jewelry, and everyday objects from the 1930s to today. This book presents items chronologically, highlighting contrasts and parallels between works including posters by Max Bill and an armchair by Frank(...)
The century of Modern design
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The Stewart Collection -in Montreal—celebrates its thirtieth anniversary in 2010. The Collection incorporates iconic furniture, ceramics, textiles, posters, graphic art, jewelry, and everyday objects from the 1930s to today. This book presents items chronologically, highlighting contrasts and parallels between works including posters by Max Bill and an armchair by Frank Lloyd Wright. Each decade of the twentieth century is introduced by an essay giving the context that shaped the works, providing a history of modern design. Great designers, including lesser-known but highly influential figures, are presented alongside their signature creations that retain a prominent place in the design world today.
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Through a series of in-depth historical case studies and assignments that progressively build in complexity, 'A New Program for Graphic Design' serves as a practical guide both for designers and for undergraduate students coming from a range of other disciplines. Synthesizing the pragmatic with the experimental, and drawing on the work of Max Bill, Beatrice Warde, Muriel(...)
A new program for graphic design
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Through a series of in-depth historical case studies and assignments that progressively build in complexity, 'A New Program for Graphic Design' serves as a practical guide both for designers and for undergraduate students coming from a range of other disciplines. Synthesizing the pragmatic with the experimental, and drawing on the work of Max Bill, Beatrice Warde, Muriel Cooper and Stewart Brand (among many others),, it builds upon mid- to late-20th-century pedagogical models to convey contemporary design principles in an understandable form for students of all levels — treating graphic design as a liberal art that informs the dissemination of knowledge across all disciplines.
Graphic Design and Typography
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Cet ouvrage revient sur la révolution graphique impulsée par des avant-gardistes de l’entre-deux-guerres, principalement en Allemagne (Herbert Bayer, László Moholy-Nagy, El Lissitzky, et plus tard Max Bill), sous l’angle de la typographie. Victor Guégan invite à percevoir cette « Nouvelle Typographie » comme la tentative d’une réforme esthétique et industrielle, après que(...)
Après la typographie : Imprimerie industrielle et avant-gardes artistiques
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Cet ouvrage revient sur la révolution graphique impulsée par des avant-gardistes de l’entre-deux-guerres, principalement en Allemagne (Herbert Bayer, László Moholy-Nagy, El Lissitzky, et plus tard Max Bill), sous l’angle de la typographie. Victor Guégan invite à percevoir cette « Nouvelle Typographie » comme la tentative d’une réforme esthétique et industrielle, après que le procédé originel de l’imprimerie a été supplanté par des techniques d’impression à grand tirage comme l’offset. Les sources de la première moitié du XXe siècle, en particulier les écrits du typographe Jan Tschichold, suggèrent que l’influence des artistes modernistes s’applique plus spécifiquement aux techniques de montage et d’impression utilisant un nouveau matériau : la photographie.
Graphic Design and Typography
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From 1958 to 1964 Structure was a major platform for artists reconsidering the design tenets and underlying principles of the Bauhaus, Constructivism and De Stijl. In this journal familiar and less familiar artists, amongst whom Joost Baljeu, Charles Biederman, Max Bill, Eli Bornstein, Ad Dekkers, John Ernest, Karl Gerstner, Stephen Gilbert, Jean Gorin, Anthony Hill,(...)
De Stijl continued : the journal Structure (1958-1964) : an artist's debate
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From 1958 to 1964 Structure was a major platform for artists reconsidering the design tenets and underlying principles of the Bauhaus, Constructivism and De Stijl. In this journal familiar and less familiar artists, amongst whom Joost Baljeu, Charles Biederman, Max Bill, Eli Bornstein, Ad Dekkers, John Ernest, Karl Gerstner, Stephen Gilbert, Jean Gorin, Anthony Hill, Richard Paul Lohse, Kenneth and Mary Martin, Georges Vantongerloo and Carel Visser, addressed such issues as whether art should once again proceed from nature; how artists should collaborate with architects; how art should relate to science and philosophy today; and what materials and techniques were to be used. De Stijl continued explores their body of ideas in meticulous detail.
Modernism
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This issue of Architectural Design takes a unique look at the relationship between architects and furniture design and furniture and architecture. There are features on some of the most important exponents of 'total design' of the 20th century - Max Bill, Ernv Goldfinger, Arne Jacobsen, Mies van der Rohe and Eero Saarinen - as well as those of the 21st: Alvaro Siza, John(...)
Furniture + architecture : architectural design vol. 72 no. 4 July 2002
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This issue of Architectural Design takes a unique look at the relationship between architects and furniture design and furniture and architecture. There are features on some of the most important exponents of 'total design' of the 20th century - Max Bill, Ernv Goldfinger, Arne Jacobsen, Mies van der Rohe and Eero Saarinen - as well as those of the 21st: Alvaro Siza, John Pawson and David Adjaye. Other emerging designers featured include Alison Brooks, Tom Emerson of 6A, Jam and Gans & Jelacic while there is also an exploration of an aesthetic of 'found' design and an artistic and architectural exploration of the ordinary. Also included in the publication is an invaluable listing of specialist retailers selling architect-designed furniture.
Interior Design
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Between 1961 and 1968, the magazine “Twen” produced a series of LP recordings in collaboration with the Philips record label. During this period, all editions of “Twen” were accompanied by LPs drawn from the realms of jazz, classical music, radio plays, world music, or pop. For the designs of his record covers, art director Willy Fleckhaus used Concrete Art by Karl(...)
Philips-Twen: realism is the score
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Between 1961 and 1968, the magazine “Twen” produced a series of LP recordings in collaboration with the Philips record label. During this period, all editions of “Twen” were accompanied by LPs drawn from the realms of jazz, classical music, radio plays, world music, or pop. For the designs of his record covers, art director Willy Fleckhaus used Concrete Art by Karl Gerstner, Max Bill, and other dedicated graphic designers such as Heinz Edelmann and Günther Kieser. This now forgotten series, comprising around 70 disks, is a masterful instance of the conjunction of music and graphic design. In collaboration with music archives and private collections, this rare series is reunited in its entirety and documented in this publication.
Graphic Designers, Monographs
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Josef Albers' rigorous investigations into color have had a decisive effect on art in the twentieth century and beyond. His teaching posts at the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College and Yale enabled him to bequeath his theories to several generations of artists and designers, from Max Bill and Mark Rothko to Eva Hesse and Ray Johnson. Published for an exhibition at the Morgan(...)
Josef Albers in America: Painting on paper
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Josef Albers' rigorous investigations into color have had a decisive effect on art in the twentieth century and beyond. His teaching posts at the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College and Yale enabled him to bequeath his theories to several generations of artists and designers, from Max Bill and Mark Rothko to Eva Hesse and Ray Johnson. Published for an exhibition at the Morgan library, and with an abundance of previously uncollected works, this volume unveils the full bounty of Albers' works on paper: lithographs, linocuts, woodcuts, screenprints and etchings. Since the prints lack the just-visible brushwork of Albers' paintings, allowing color to emerge without surface blemish, some have argued that they constitute a more effective illustration of his color theory.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Sarah Crowner: format
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The paintings of New York artist Sarah Crowner (born 1974) have offered a new slant on the constructedness of the abstract-geometric painting as developed by Max Bill, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin and Elizabeth Murray. Crowner sews together painted panels of canvas, raw linen and monochromatic fabrics, introducing a handmade touch to modernist aesthetics that often(...)
Sarah Crowner: format
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The paintings of New York artist Sarah Crowner (born 1974) have offered a new slant on the constructedness of the abstract-geometric painting as developed by Max Bill, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin and Elizabeth Murray. Crowner sews together painted panels of canvas, raw linen and monochromatic fabrics, introducing a handmade touch to modernist aesthetics that often espoused the minimizing of the artist’s hand. Crowner’s first large-scale artist’s book extends this instinct for materiality to her vast archive of ephemera (magazines, publications, posters) from the 1920s through the 1940s, which she deploys here as a source material for the creation of new images that are built up through imposition, extraction, collaging and printing. Much like her paintings, the resulting works are geometrical and optical abstractions that bring fresh vigor to the tradition on which Crowner draws.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Explorer les relations subtiles entre l’art concret et la nature, tel est le dessein de cet ouvrage placé sous le signe d’une sculpture de Jean Arp dont le titre, Homme vu par une fleur, invite à renverser toutes nos certitudes. Des chemins de traverse sont empruntés pour observer la manière dont la nature s’immisce dans les problèmes mathématiques de Max Bill, s’octroie(...)
Art concret + Nature = Homme vu par une fleur
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Explorer les relations subtiles entre l’art concret et la nature, tel est le dessein de cet ouvrage placé sous le signe d’une sculpture de Jean Arp dont le titre, Homme vu par une fleur, invite à renverser toutes nos certitudes. Des chemins de traverse sont empruntés pour observer la manière dont la nature s’immisce dans les problèmes mathématiques de Max Bill, s’octroie une place non négligeable dans la création de la pionnière du Computer Art Vera Molnár, préside à la pensée écologique de Gottfried Honegger, constitue un modèle essentiel pour les artistes de ZERO tels que herman de vries ou Heinz Mack, offre un espace infini qu’explore la poète spatialiste Ilse Garnier. Pour concrétiser cette rencontre entre l’art et la nature, des jardins d’artistes, d’architectes, de designers, de paysagistes tels que Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Gabriel Guévrékian, Herbert Bayer, Roberto Burle Marx ou Gilles Clément ouvrent le champ des possibles.
Art Theory
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This lively and authoritative book explores the influence of the Bauhaus and modernism on typography and book design. Alan Bartram examines work by such key figures as Max Bill, F. T. Marinetti, El Lissitzky, László Moholy-Nagy, Jan Tschichold, and Paul Rand. All of the carefully chosen examples, some of which have not been previously reproduced, clearly demonstrate the(...)
Bauhaus, modernism & the illustrated book
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This lively and authoritative book explores the influence of the Bauhaus and modernism on typography and book design. Alan Bartram examines work by such key figures as Max Bill, F. T. Marinetti, El Lissitzky, László Moholy-Nagy, Jan Tschichold, and Paul Rand. All of the carefully chosen examples, some of which have not been previously reproduced, clearly demonstrate the modernist revolution that took place in graphic design. In an informative introductory essay, Bartram surveys the German art and design school known as the Bauhaus. Under Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus intended to create an academic, theoretical, and practical synthesis of all forms of visual expression, a marrying of art, architecture, industry, and design that had never been attempted before. Although the Bauhaus existed for only fourteen years, from 1920 to 1934, Bartram asserts that its philosophy influenced the appearance of almost every kind of modernist artifact throughout the twentieth century and continues to do so today.
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