Avant-Garde Graphics: 1918-34
Lutz Becker, Richard Hollis
September 2004, 240 x 172mm, 96 pp
c.100 colour images
1 85332 238 5
£14.95
The early twentieth century was a time of creative ferment in Europe. This 'heroic' period of modernity found particularly forceful expression in graphic design and photomontage throughout Europe, where new techniques allowed a fusion of typography, painting and photography, evoking the dynamism and fragmentation of cinema. With colour reproductions of posters, prints, book designs, and political and commercial ephemera, Avant-Garde Graphics focuses on many of the leading practitioners of the Modern movement, from the Dutch members of De Stijl and the German Bauhaus to the Constructivists of the USSR and central Europe. Drawn from the Merrill C. Berman Collection, one of the greatest collections of twentieth-century graphic art in the world, the book includes essays by film-maker and curator Lutz Becker and graphic designer and historian Richard Hollis. Artists include Jean Arp, Herbert Bayer, Willi Baumeister, Theo van Doesburg, John Heartfield, Gustav Klucis, El Lissitzky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Liubov Popova, Alexandr Rodchenko, Oskar Schlemmer, Kurt Schwitters, Nikolai Sidelnikov, Vladmimir Stenberg and Georgii Stenberg, Varvara Stepanova, Solomon Telingater and Piet Zwart. Buy online from the distributor, Cornerhouse Publications.
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