THE AVANT GARDE IN PRINT 1: FUTURISM
Arthur A. Cohen
Cohen, Arthur A.: THE AVANT GARDE IN PRINT 1: FUTURISM. New York: AGP Mathews/Ex Libris, 1981. First edition. A fine portfolio consisting of 10 facsimile plates and a folded (6-page) sheet of explanatory text with small illustrations keyed to the plates, housed in very good, lightly shelfworn Black cardboard folder.
12.25 x 13 portfolio of heavy black paper with pasted title label and diagonal cut pocket inside to hold facsimile sheets.
The prints are intended to be facsimiles are are printed by offset lithography to reproduce the size and colors of the orignals. The colors are printed in flat areas, giving the images a freshness and immediacy that four-color printing from color photographs could never provide. A highly recommended and sought-after artifact from Cohen and Elaine Lustig Cohen's legendary bookstore Ex-Libris.
As Cohen notes, this portfolio series acknowledges the debt paid the pioneers of modern typography for their bold inventivenss and the subtle mastery of the new visual vocabulary where the line between words and forms, type and painting, was diminished and the goal of direct communcation elevated as never before.
THE AVANT GARDE IN PRINT 1: FUTURISM Contents:
- F. T. Marinetti & Giacomo Balla: Letterhead for Movimento Futurista
- Giacomo Balla: Futurust Manifesto
- F. T. Marinetti: Free Word Composition (parole in lberta)
- F. T. Marinetti: Free Word Composition (sensibilite numerique)
- 3 Futurist Postcards: Moviemento Futurista, Francesco Cangiullo (presumed) and Futurist Exhibition by Fortunato Depero
- Fortunato Depero: A page from his book Depero Futurista
- Tato (Guglielmo Sansoni): Photograph
- F. De Fillippis: Cover to issue of periodical Stile Futurista
- Enrico Bona: Advertisement in Futurist issue of Campo Grafico
- Mino Somenzi: Back page of weekly newspaper Futurismo
Ex Libris Rare Books was founded in 1973 by Elaine Lustig-Cohen and her husband Arthur A. Cohen (1928-1986). She was a graphic designer of no small renown, and he was a theologian, novelist, art and literary critic, who wrote extensively on Modern Art. The couple dealt in important and rare printed material and graphic documentation of International 20th-Century art. Much of their early inventory is now in Museums and international private collections.
Spreads from this volume can be viewed here.
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