Showing posts with label Avantgarde. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Avantgarde. Show all posts

El Lissitzky: "About Two Squares: A Suprematist Tale of Two Squares in Six Constructions" 1922

7:43 PM
Book with letterpress and offset lithography, in black and red, on cream wove paper, stapled along spine https://www.kodomo.go.jp/gallery/modernism/09_for2/index_e.html

When Bauhaus sends you a postcard...

5:56 PM
In 1923, a flurry of colorful postcards heralded the first major Bauhaus school exhibition. Both students and established artists including Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy, Wassily Kandinsky, and Herbert Bayer offered snapshots of the German modernist aesthetic that would majorly influence art and design for the rest of the 20th century. https://hyperallergic.com/221572/the-exuberant-postcard-art-of-the-first-bauhaus-exhibition/

Dada Periodicals

2:52 AM
A brilliant collection of Dada periodicals: http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/collection.html cover for 391, by Francis Picabia. 3 Above: Merz pages by Kurt Schwitters, the central image is a centerfold from issue 8/9, which was actually designed by El Lissitzky. Also on this site are lot of page reproductions of poetry books by Dadaist poets ranging from Eluard to Tristan Tzara; as well as pages from an exhibition catalog of Max Ernst's work (be…
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