Letters from the avant-garde : modern graphic design / Ellen Lupton and Elaine Lustig Cohen.

By:

Lupton, Ellen

Contributor(s):

Cohen, Elaine Lustig, 1927-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 1996.Description: 95 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

1568980523 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

741.6 20

Contents:

Foreword / Elaine Lustig Cohen -- Networks / Ellen Lupton -- Futurism -- Dada + Surrealism --Constructivism -- Dutch Modernism -- The Ring --Bauhaus -- Architecture + Design in France -- Popular Modernism -- Modernism in America.

Summary: Looking at the period between 1915 and 1950, Letters from the Avant-Garde is the first book to document the history of modern design and typography through the medium of printed stationery. Futurism, Dada, Surrealism, De Stijl, Constructivism, the Bauhaus, and other movements and institutions used letterheads to promote their ideas about form, function, and technology to an international community. The printed letterheads and other ephemera reproduced in this book are typographic self-portraits of some of the most fascinating figures in the development of modernism, including Herbert Bayer, Le Corbusier, El Lissitzky, F. T. Marinetti, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Kurt Schwitters, and Piet Zwart. Letters from the Avant-Garde features over 150 illustrations in full color, many published here for the first time.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Open Collection	FIRST CITY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE	FIRST CITY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE	Open Collection	FCUC Library	741.6 LUP 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00012536
Open Collection	FIRST CITY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE	FIRST CITY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE	Open Collection	FCUC Library	741.6 LUP 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00012535

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Looking at the period between 1915 and 1950, Letters from the Avant-Garde is the first book to document the history of modern design and typography through the medium of printed stationery. Futurism, Dada, Surrealism, De Stijl, Constructivism, the Bauhaus, and other movements and institutions used letterheads to promote their ideas about form, function, and technology to an international community. The printed letterheads and other ephemera reproduced in this book are typographic self-portraits of some of the most fascinating figures in the development of modernism, including Herbert Bayer, Le Corbusier, El Lissitzky, F. T. Marinetti, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Kurt Schwitters, and Piet Zwart. Letters from the Avant-Garde features over 150 illustrations in full color, many published here for the first time.