PLASTIQUE
[Number 1-5, 1937-1939]

Sophie H. Taeuber-Arp [Editor]

6.25 x 9.5 hardcover book with 67 black and white plates, reprinting Sophie H. Taeuber-Arp's avant-garde art journal PLASTIQUE "devoted to the study and appreciation of Abstract Art; its editors are themselves painters and sculptors identified with the modern movement in Europe and America." Sophie H. Taeuber-Arp served as editor, with regular collaborations from Hans Arp, Cesar Domela, A. E. Gallatin, L. K. Morris and other. An exceptional snapshot of the international Constructivist and Abstract Art movements that flourished before the start of World War II. My highest recommendation.

PLASTIQUE No. 1 [Malewitsch in Memoriam]:

• Frontspiece by K. Malewitsch.
• Suprematismus by K. Malewitsch.
• Hommage à Malewitsch / Malewitsch in Memoriam by H. Wescher.
• On the Abstract Edition by G. L. K. Morris.
• Brauchen wir Noch Künstler ? by Siegfried Giedion.
• Includes black and white plates by K. Malewitsch, Antoine Pevsner, Cesa Domela, El Lissitzky, Sophie H. Taeuber-Arp, Theo Van Doesburg, Hans Arp, Raoul Hausmann. A.E. Galatin and Otto Freundlich.

PLASTIQUE No. 2 [Dimensionisme]:

• Frontspiece by Hans Arp.
• On Demande: Porquoi 391? Qu'est-ce que 391? by Gabrielle Buffet.
• Von der Statischen zur Dynamischen Form by Hans Richter.
• Dimensionisme by Charles Sirato. Referenced in Contents, but not actually published.
• Informations includes a publication notice/review of Jan Tschichold's TYPOGRAPHISCHE GESTALTUNG [Basel: Benno Schwabe, 1935].
• Includes black and white plates by Hans Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Cesar Domela, Clara Friedrich, Max Bill, Viking Eggeling, Hans Richter, Prinner, Vordemberge-Gildewart, Ladislas Moholy-Nagy, Paule Vezelay, Hans Reichel, and Sophie H. Taeuber-Arp.

PLASTIQUE No. 3:

• Frontspiece by Josef Albers.
• A la Recherche d'une Tradition de l'art Abstrait by G. L. K. Morris.
• Abstract Painting and the Museum of Living Art by A. E. Gallatin.
• American Perspective by Balcomb Greene.
• Die Entwicklung der Abstrakten Kunst in America by Balcomb Greene.
• Ten years Transition by Eugene Jolas.
• The Plastic Polygon by Charles G. Shaw.
• Informations includes entries by Ernst Kallai, and dispatches from New York, Basel, Amsterdam, London and Paris.
• Includes black and white plates by Josef Albers, Jean Xéron, A. E. Gallatin, R. D. Turnbull, Gertrude Greene, Elsa Thorensen, B. G. Benno, G.L.K. Morris, Ferren, Carl Holty Alex Corazzo, Sandro Giampietro, Robert Foster, Frederick Kann, Vaclav Vytlacil, and Charles G. Shaw

PLASTIQUE No. 4 [L'Homme qui a Perdu son Squelette]:

• Frontspiece by Wassily Kandinsky.
• Roman par Arp, Duchamp, Eluard, Ernst, G. Hugnet, H. Pastoureau, G. Prassinos.
• Three Little Pinetrees by Raoul Hausmann.
• Salongespräch, Testimonium paupertatis and Weiss-Horn by Wassily Kandinsky.
• A Fleur des Fleurs, Les Saisons leurs Astériques et leurs Pions by Hans Arp.
• Kleines Gedicht für grosse Stotterer, Die Liebe by Kurt Schwitters.
• L'oiseau Porte des Gants by Georges Hugnet.
• Informations includes Expositions and Books.
• Includes black and white plates by Wassily Kandinsky, Ernst Schwitters, Raoul Hausmann, J. H. Levesque, W. Bjerke-Petersen, Hans Arp and Kurt Schwitters.

PLASTIQUE No. 5 [L'Homme qui a Perdu son Squelette]:

• Frontspiece by Alberto Magnelli.
• Roman par Arp, L. Carrington, Duchamp, Eluard, Ernst, G. Hugnet, G. Prassinos.
• Optofonetische Konstruktion by Rauol Hausmann.
• Zu den Arbeiten von Max Bill by Ernst Kallai.
• Décadence by Georges Vantongerloo.
• Vordemberge Gildewart by H. Buys.
• Walter Bodmer by G. Schmidt.
• Includes black and white plates by Alberto Magnelli, Hans Robert Welti, Leo Leuppi, Raoul Hausmann, Max Bill, Georges Vantongerloo, Vordemberge-Gildewart, and Walter Bodmer.

Spreads from this volume can be viewed here.

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