Description: A HISTORY OF THE MODERN MOVEMENT: ART, ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN 1973 First Edition in Dust Jacket 240 pages, with 606 illustrations Kurt Rowland: A HISTORY OF THE MODERN MOVEMENT: ART, ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN. New York and London: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company and Looking and Seeing, 1973. First edition. Quarto. White cloth titled in silver. Black endpapers. Printed dust jacket. 240 pp. 606 black and white illustrations. Dust jacket lightly rubbed. Book with yellow highlighting on two pages of the ‘new education’ chapter and neat ink notations to several chapter headers. Pages 57- 60 with two creases and closed tears, but a very good copy in a very good or better dust jacket. 8.85 x 11-inch hardcover book with 240 pages and 606 black and white illustrations. Remarkably comprehensive overview of the modern movement, from its origins in the arts and craft tradition, through the mid-thirties. This volume ties together many loose threads, including fine arts, architecture and design into a coherent, well-illustrated survey. Contents: introduction: style and feeling Introduction arts and crafts the new art the new world the periphery expression the new reality art and industry the machine (1) anti-art the machine (2) the new style the new society the new education epilogue: perception and feeling Includes work samples from Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Frank lloyd Wright, Adolph Loos, Auguste Perret, Hans Poelzig, Bruno Taut, F. T. Marinetti, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Picasso, Braque, Hans Arp, Max Ernst, Eric Mendelsohn, Kurt Schwitters, John Heartfield, Fernand Leger, Amedee Ozenfant, Piet Mondrian, Gerrit Rietveld, JJP Oud, Theo van Doesburg, Mikhail Larioniv, Kasimir Malevich, Alexandr Rodchenko, Vladimir Taitlin, El Lissitzky, Gustav Klutsis, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, Joost Schmidt, Paul Klee, etc. I think you get the idea... Modernism developed out of a bewildering array of movements and theories ranging from Cubism to Constructivism, abstraction to atonality. Starting out more as an attitude of mind than a conscious style, Modernism was a response to the need for the new and different which was felt in the early 20th century by intellectuals and artists throughout Europe. It became a phenomenon which was familiar to many but remained the preserve of the few, with such giants as Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius standing out as prime movers, and much activity centered around the Bauhaus as a focus of ideas in the 1920s. Please visit my Ebay store for an excellent and ever-changing selection of rare and out-of-print design books and periodicals covering all aspects of 20th-century visual culture. I offer shipping discounts for multiple purchases. Please contact me for details. Payment due within 3 days of purchase.
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