DIRECTION
Volume 6, No. 2, 1943
Paul Rand: DIRECTION. Darien, CT: Volume 6, No. 2, 1943. Original Edition. A very good magazine with a tear on the rear panel and light wear overall. Features a seminal cover design by Paul Rand.
8.25 x 10.75 saddle-stitched magazine book with 32 pages of fiction, social commentary and art. DIRECTION was the laboratory where Rand tested many of this developing theories of modern design and typography. Because he worked without compensation (except for a few Corbusier lithographs...), he was allowed a tremendous amount of aesthetic leeway in designing the DIRECTION magazine covers. With little money budgeted for typesetting, Rand used his own handwriting for the cover copy, and the rest is history.
Paul Rand's DIRECTION covers have been reprinted in every major graphic design anthology and have achieved iconic stature in their own right. A rare opportunity to acquire an original edition of this publication.
Summer Fiction Contest Winner issue:
- Hal Ellison
- Camille Weare
- Harold Sullivan
- Fred Berensmeier
- Charles Glicksberry
- Sgt. Ben Passen
- Art Brooks
- Boyd Wolff
- Carol Ely Harper
- Sigrid de Lima
- Quincy Gay Burris
- Edwin Seaver
- John Gassner
Edited by William Gropper, et al, including contributing editors Richard Wright, Kenneth Burke and Edwin Seaver. A dynamic, frequently visually striking, consistently left of center journal of literature and the arts, drawing on the foundations left by the WPA for much of its brilliance. A substantial roster of contributors appeared through its tenure, including Dreiser, Dos Passos, Le Corbusier, Caldwell, Rexroth, Kees, Larsson, Abel, Kemp, Anderson, Herbst, Scott, Brown, Art Young, Halper, Komroff, Macleod, Bourke White, Burke, di Donato, Woody Guthrie, Seldes, Lorentz, Hughes, Maltz, Chaplin, Sandburg, R. Lowry, Ellison, Morris, et al. A major 20th century American periodical which is increasingly difficult to acquire in decent condition.
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