Description: GRAPHIS 57: 1955 E. McKnight Kauffer | Studio Stile | Hiroshi Ohchi | Piero Fornasetti’s Printed plates, etc. Walter Herdeg [Editor]: GRAPHIS 57. Zurich: Graphis Press 1955. Volume 6, No. 57, 1955. Original edition. Slim quarto. Printed wrappers. 88 pp. Multiple paper stocks. Illustrated articles and period advertisements. Cover by Bernard Villmot. Glossy black cover with several handling divots and a chipped spine crown. Rear panel with several faint triangular creases. Lightly handled, so a very good copy. 9.25 x 11.75 magazine with 88 pages of black and white and color examples of modern graphic design, circa 1955. Text in in English, French and German. Graphis was (and still is) one of the most important and influential European graphic design publication. Graphis has been revered for its artistic presentation, impeccable design, and exemplary production qualities. Contents: In Memoriam E. McKnight Kauffer (Charles Rosner): 10 pages and 32 color and b/w images Austrian Advertising and Editorial Art (Jorg Lampe) Villemot (Francois Stahly) Studio Stile (Dino Villani): the work of Gian Carlo Rossetti and Carmelo Cremonesi Collages – and the Breakdown of Optical Unity (Herta Wescher) Hiroshi Ohchi (Georgine Oeri) Piero Fornasetti. Printed Plates (Raffaele Carrieri): 6 pages and 23 b/w images Sculpture of the South Seas (Herbert Tischner) The Poet as Artist (Denys Chevalier) ”I believe that one day, when he was young, Fornasetti must have had a truly startling vision. I don’t know if it was during the day or by night, but suddenly he must have seen the whole world explode into the air, the whole world and all of history and all the accumulation of its figures, memories and all the stones, the bodies, the trees, the houses and the monuments. Everything flew into the air and finished up in an infinite, opaque cloud full of rubbish that rose like a nuclear mushroom and then, slowly, in chilling silince, began to descent, falling heavily - perhaps on fornasetti’s head, or perhaps on his table or on his paintbrush or perhaps even simply on the floor of his room. it must have been a bit like in an Michelangelo Antonioni film ...” Ettore Sottsass Piero Fornasetti is widely recognized as a visionary designer, artist, illustrator, printer, graphic designer, craftsman, manufacturer and businessman. He established an enduring reputation as a designer with a style that was all his own, a style based on illusionism, architectural perspectives and a host of personal leitmotifs, such as the sun, playing cards and fishes, from which he spun seemingly endless variations. ‘He makes objects speak’ said Gio Ponti, his friend and longtime collaborator. Global in scope, Graphis is a compelling record of the most significant and influential communication work being produced today. In visually driven articles, Graphis beautifully presents the best work produced internationally in Graphic Design, Advertising, Branding & Identity, Illustration, Publishing, Packaging Design, Typography and Photography. 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. 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. 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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