GRAPHIS 24
Volume 4, No. 24, 1948
Walter Herdeg (ed.): GRAPHIS 24. Zurich: Graphis Press 1948. Volume 4, No. 24, 1948. Original edition. A fine original magazine: very mild spine wear. Cover art by Pablo Picasso.
9.25 x 11.75 magazine with 100 pages of b/w and color examples of modern graphic design, circa 1948. Text in in English, French and German. Graphis was (and still is) one of the most important and influential European graphic design publication. Each issue always showcased the best graphic and applied art, including advertising, typography, posters, printmaking, illustrators, book arts, ethnic art, etc, with a focus on modern European designers. Graphis is still being published, but the most influential and groundbreaking years are from the 1940s to the early 1960s.
Excellent original edition of Graphis with a very strong editiorial content:
- Picasso: illustrations to the sonnets of Gongora
- ADC NY 27th exhibition: Paul Rand, etc.
- the ornament of the Book of Kells
- CATALOG DESIGN: NEW FIELD FOR VISUAL COMMUNICATION by Ladislav Sutnar and K. Lonberg-Holm
- Fred Chance
- Doeve
- Poster art in post-war Poland by Jan Lenica
- Chinese paper cuttings
- Raissa Maritain: Chagall ou l'orage enchante
- Paul Eluard: Voir
- Honegger-Lavater
- the diplay window as a sign of the times
- schaefer-ast
- culture and education in world order by herbert read
- Book Reviews
These periodicals are much harder to find than the well known Graphis Annuals, which are essentially pictorial "best of" collections and lack the depth and text of the originals. These publications are also more valuable as they are the original documents. Many of the articles are written by important artists, critics and scholars.
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