Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life: Early Twentieth-Century European Modernism
Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life: Early Twentieth-Century European Modernism
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Witkovsky, Matthew S. Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life: Early Twentieth-Century European Modernism
Yale Univ. Press
2011
Book ID: 87765
Features Piet Zwart, a Dutch designer who brought his minimalist aesthetic vision to ubiquitous items like biscuit boxes and postage stamps; Karel Teige, leader of the Czech avant-garde, who produced brilliant book and journal designs; his compatriot Ladislav Sutnar, who brought modernist "good design" to tableware, clothing, and children's toys; Gustav Klutsis, who pioneered using photomontage for political purposes; Lazar (El) Lissitzky, who produced some of the most exciting book, poster, and exhibition designs of the 1920s and '30s in Germany and Russia; and German artist John Heartfield, who worked exclusively in photomontage to design book covers, journals, and agitational posters for the Communist cause.
160 pp. Cl.
