Tuesday, December 18, 2007

only, the fruit still has to avoid being eaten













some examples from robert motherwell/george wittenborn's documents of modern art (1944-1972), covers and typography by paul rand.

titles include:
guillaume apollinaire: the cubist painters (1944)
piet mondrain: plastic art and pure plastic art (1945)
lászló moholy-nagy: the new vision (1946)
louis henry sullivan: kindergarten chats (1947)
wassily kandinsky: concerning the spiritual in art (1947)
jean arp: on my way (1948)
max ernst: beyond painting (1948)
robert motherwell: the dada painters and poets: an anthology (1951)
david-henri kahnweiler: the rise of cubism (1949)
marcel raymond: from baudelaire to surrealism (1949)
georges duthuit: the fauvist painters (1950)
carola gideon-welcker: contemporary sculpture (1955)
marcel duchamp: the bride stripped bare by her bachelors, even (1960)
paul klee: the thinking eye + the nature of nature
k. malevich: essays on art (1971)

motherwell/wittenborn also published another series: problems of contemporary art (1945-1954). motherwell edited the documents of twentieth-century art with viking press (1971-1993).
46 titles (47 volumes) total

(title from duchamp's volume)
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6 comments:

  1. the art of memoryDecember 18, 2007 at 6:11 PM

    http://www.stoutbooks.com/cgi-bin/stoutbooks.cgi/76806.html

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  2. woolgathersomeDecember 19, 2007 at 6:31 AM

    Lovely...

    Did you see this:

    http://farm1.static.flickr.com/166/375590862_083052a77b_b.jpg

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  3. the art of memoryDecember 19, 2007 at 10:04 AM

    yes, we have that one, but i haven't had access to it yet, that one looked real interesting. with pollock
    have you looked through them?

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  4. woolgathersomeDecember 20, 2007 at 7:53 AM

    I did look through that one when I was working on the exhibit... quite nice inside as I remember (text especially)*

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  5. AnonymousNovember 4, 2008 at 1:41 PM

    Did Paul Rand design the jacket for "the bride stripped bare by her bachelors, even"?

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  6. the art of memoryNovember 5, 2008 at 10:19 AM

    i don't have access to them at the moment, but i don't think he did the cover for that one, but i can't say for sure.
    there is a nice wittenborn site on the moma website that is quite informative.

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