This volume explores the creative transformation which shook the foundations of European culture during the first four decades of the twentieth century--a revolution which encompassed fields as wide-ranging as visual art, theatre, literature, photography, design, music, and architecture. Breaking the Rules brings these distinct movements together for the first time in order to explore the rich tradition of exploiting the printed medium that helped to define the creative change of the age--and foster our contemporary ...
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This volume explores the creative transformation which shook the foundations of European culture during the first four decades of the twentieth century--a revolution which encompassed fields as wide-ranging as visual art, theatre, literature, photography, design, music, and architecture. Breaking the Rules brings these distinct movements together for the first time in order to explore the rich tradition of exploiting the printed medium that helped to define the creative change of the age--and foster our contemporary understanding of avant-garde culture. Breaking the Rules draws upon the British Library's unrivalled collection of artists' books, manifestos, little magazines, literary manuscripts, sound recordings, and posters from across Europe in order to explore the rapid exchange of ideas through printed matter that marked the avant-garde movement--and led to its presence in cities as diverse as London, Brussels, Munich, Zurich, Florence, Rome, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Prague, Tbilisi, Budapest, and Belgrade, among others. Including remarkable items like the notebooks and corrected proofs of Finnegans Wake and excerpts from an oral history interview with David Gascoyne recalling the Surrealist group in 1935 Paris--all beautifully reproduced with over ninety full-color images--as well as articles about more than thirty European and Russian cities describing their location's particular significance to the avant garde, this volume is essential reading for anyone fascinated by the power of change inherent in the printed image and word.
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As New in As New jacket. Size: 8vo 8"-9" tall; Stephen Bury has compiled a brilliant reader in Dadaism, Surrealism, Futurism, Expressionism, Vorticicism, Cubism and other non-objective art movements, with a special focus on the lives and works of artists such as Malevich, Joyce, Kandinsky, Moholy-Nagy, Tschichold, Teige, Marinetti, Dali, Apollinaire, Tzara and others. Plentiful images, manifestos and fine reproductions printed on high-gloss paper. Bound handsomely in bright red cloth, with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. [5], 6-175 pp. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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As New in As New jacket. Size: 8vo 8"-9" tall; A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf-and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound in bright red cloth and with sharp and distinct white and black lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Over 100 illustrations in black-and-white and full-color of art works printed on posters, in newspapers and magazines, journals and art shows. The extensive publisher's blurb has it that, "Between 1900 and 1937 the avant-garde consisted of a series of overlapping movements, such as Cubism, Expressionism, Futurism, Dadaism, Constructivism and Surrealism. Because of its very nature, the avant garde was denied traditional modes of communication and exhibition, so participants became adept at finding alternative outlets, publishing their own manifestos, poetry, magazines and books, and creating new genres, such as the artist's book and the photo-book. These frequently employed innovative design and typography, still influential today. Such groups were often synonymous with specific magazines and this period was the last one in which the printed format was the primary mode for communicating information; film and broadcasting were ready to take over. This book focuses on the printed work of avant-garde participants, demonstrating its importance to the various groups and the way in which printed words helped to disseminate information and ideas internationally. In addition, around 30 cities of particular importance to the avant garde are featured, and their artists and contributions are described in depth. The book contains around 100 illustrations in both colour and black-and-white of the range of printed work, giving a unique insight into a little-studied aspect of the avant garde." [5], 6-176 pp.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. (graphic arts, modernism, avant-garde, exhibition catalogs) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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