graphics gellert hugo (7 Ergebnisse)

Original illustrated poster, offset printed in black and red on white stock, measuring 43.5cm x 56cm (17" x 22"). Light wear and a few tiny tears to extremities, shallow losses to right corners, with a faint diagonal crease to upper left corner; unbacked, Very Good. "With the Liberty Bell and subtitle "Made in USA" in parentheses, this poster telegraphs the struggle for public legitimacy sought by the Communist Party, U.S.A. at the end of the 1950s. The organizing committee was forced to host this hallmark radical memorial in New York's Washington Square instead of the preferred Union Square because they were denied a permit, and were also refused use of loudspeakers because they might interfere with classes at nearby New York University. Though beautifully hand-lettered and illustrated by lifelong activist illustrator Hugo Gellert, the simple two-color poster nonetheless remains locked in a design aesthetic little changed from the W.P.A. posters of the 1930s" (Cushing, Lincoln. "Political Graphics of the long 1960s." Essay published in New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness, 2009). 82980.

First Edition. Quarto. Original tan cloth boards; dustjacket; (47)pp incl. frontis.; illus. Slight darkening to cloth at gutters, as usual else tight, clean and unmarked; Near Fine. In scarce original dustwrapper, chafed on rear panel and with some chips to extremities; just VG. Nineteen political caricatures by the famed Masses cartoonist, each with facing text adapted from the fables of Aesop to reflect contemporary social and political realities during the Great Depression. Uncommon in any sort of dustjacket.

Bifolium lithograph (57.5cm), printed on BFK Rives by E. Desjobert (Paris, France), each signed by Gellert in pencil. A Fine copy. Widely acknowledged as Gellert's masterpiece, and certainly his most-reproduced body of work, marrying selections from the text of Marx's Kapital with his own strong social-realist graphics. Published at the height of the Depression, the portfolio, limited to 133 numbered and signed sets, is also Gellert's scarcest work, seldom encountered in a complete state. This lithograph features a charcoal pencil illustration of a worker leading a train of oxen, pulling a load of lumber, with text from "The Labor Process and the Process of Producing Surplus Value" on the opposite page. 82065.

Bifolium lithograph (57.5cm), printed on BFK Rives by E. Desjobert (Paris, France), each signed by Gellert in pencil. Faint crease along the upper edge, else Fine. Widely acknowledged as Gellert's masterpiece, and certainly his most-reproduced body of work, marrying selections from the text of Marx's Kapital with his own strong social-realist graphics. Published at the height of the Depression, the portfolio, limited to 133 numbered and signed sets, is also Gellert's scarcest work, seldom encountered in a complete state. This lithograph features a large charcoal illustration of track wheel machinery, with text from "Constant Capital and Variable Capital" on the opposite page. 82075.

Bifolium lithograph (57.5cm), printed on BFK Rives by E. Desjobert (Paris, France), each signed by Gellert in pencil. Some trivial creasing and a few tiny tears along the lower edge, else very Near Fine. Widely acknowledged as Gellert's masterpiece, and certainly his most-reproduced body of work, marrying selections from the text of Marx's Kapital with his own strong social-realist graphics. Published at the height of the Depression, the portfolio, limited to 133 numbered and signed sets, is also Gellert's scarcest work, seldom encountered in a complete state. This lithograph features a large charcoal illustration of a worker's tools hammer, sickle, pitchfork, shovel, and wrench with text from "Division of Labor and Manufacture" (Twofold Origin of Manufacture, The Detail Worker and His Implement) on the opposite page. 82073.

Bifolium lithograph (57.5cm), printed on BFK Rives by E. Desjobert (Paris, France), each signed by Gellert in pencil. A Fine copy. Widely acknowledged as Gellert's masterpiece, and certainly his most-reproduced body of work, marrying selections from the text of Marx's Kapital with his own strong social-realist graphics. Published at the height of the Depression, the portfolio, limited to 133 numbered and signed sets, is also Gellert's scarcest work, seldom encountered in a complete state. This lithograph features a charcoal illustration of a fist clutching three individual stalks of wheat, with text from "Commodities" (The Two Factors of a Commodity: Use-Value and Value) on the opposite page. 82064.

Bifolium lithograph (57.5cm), printed on BFK Rives by E. Desjobert (Paris, France), each signed by Gellert in pencil. Some trivial wear and a few faint creases to extremities, else a very Near Fine copy. Widely acknowledged as Gellert's masterpiece, and certainly his most-reproduced body of work, marrying selections from the text of Marx's Kapital with his own strong social-realist graphics. Published at the height of the Depression, the portfolio, limited to 133 numbered and signed sets, is also Gellert's scarcest work, seldom encountered in a complete state. This lithograph features a large charcoal illustration of an elderly John D. Rockefeller, his hands together in prayer while being strangled by a stock ticker tape machine, with text from "Primary Accumulation" (Origin of the Industrial Capitalist) on the opposite page. 82061.