philip steadman ed (9 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: very good. Book. 245 x 245 mm, 32 pp. in stapled, printed wraps. Special issue of the groundbreaking art, architecture and literary magazine FORM, which was edited by influential Cambridge academics of the period, and was noteworthy for republishing and translating avant-garde texts. This particular issue is dedicated to the 'Brighton Festival Exhibition of Concrete Poetry'. Features a map and index of the works exhibited (the exhibition was directed by FORM editor Stephen Bann), as well as a translation of 'The first years of Concrete Poetry' by Eugen Gomringer. This issue also includes: an essay by Lewis Shelley on the avant-garde Black Mountain College (the first in a series); an essay by Joseph Albers entitles 'My courses at the Hochschule fur Gestaltung at Ulm', and an essay on 'Albers' 'Graphic Tectonics' by Irving Finkelstein'; 'What is Kinetism?' by Lev Nusberg - translated from his manifesto; 'Symmetry: Nature and the Plane' and 'A Non-Aristotelian Creative Reality' by Charles Biederman; poetry by Anselm Hollo, and a section on 'Great Little Magazines', with this particular issue focused on 'Mecano', which was edited by Theo von Doesburg. Reprinted from 'Mecano' here is 'Two Men' by Kurt Schwitters, 'Towards a Constructive Poetry' by I.K. Bonset (aka Theo von Doesburg) and 'Manifesto on the Lawfulness of Sound' by Raoul Hausman (translated by Richard Taylor'. Ref: Allen, Artist's Magazines, MIT Press, 2011. p. 261 Condition: crease to front cover as seen, minor toning to covers, internally near fine. Overall very good.

Paperback. Zustand: Near fine. Book. 265 x 210 mm, 70 pp., invisible bound printed wraps - with a front cover image of Alexander Schoffer's Chronus sculpture. Printed by the Highbury Press, London; typographical design by Philip Steadman. Features: an essay by Frank Popper entitled 'Kinetic Art - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow', extensively illustrated with works by Vasarely, Tomasello, Tinguely, Kosice, Von Graevenitz, Alexander Calder, Kenneth Martin, Nino Calos, John Healey, Sandu Darie, Frank Malina and Agam; text by Stephen Bann entitled 'Colour Music'; an essay by Reg Gadney entitled 'Aspects of Kinetic Art and Emotion', with 'lumidyne' works by Frank Malina featured alongside the text, as well as 'Spatiodynamic' works by Nicolas Schoffer, and works by Joel Stein, GRAV, Andree Dantu and Martha Boto. The final essay by Stephen Bann is entitled 'Unity and Diversity in Kinetic Art', which focusses on the work of GRAV, Vardanega, Agam, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Auguste Herbin, Victor Vasarely and Francois Morellet. Condition: Near fine.

Zustand: very good. Tony Gould, Reg Gadney, Jim Philip (eds), GRANTA Vol. 69 No. 1235, GRANTA, Cambridge, 1964. 217 x 281mm. 38pp. Printed black and red on white stock with monochrome illustrations and adverts. Titled 'The Election Issue', this issue of Granta features essays on the Conservative, Labour and Communist 'Cases.' Also featured is an essay by Frank Popper on 'Kinetic Art and our Environment' and two contributions from Thomas Clark: a review of William Carlos Williams and Gael Turnball and a poem entitled 'An Attempt in Time'. Issue complete with a variant b&w print insert of the cover image. Condition: Very good.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Superb copy of a well done and thorough magazine on kinetic art and concrete poetry. One page dog-eared else excellent with slightest handling and shelfwear.

Paperback. Zustand: Near fine. Book. 265 x 210 mm, 64 pp. in printed stapled wraps. Front cover image ('Portrait of Andree Dantu by Richard Hardwick: three phases of a Dantu polaroid light mobile') in colour, contents illustrated with both colour and b/w images. Three issues of Image (usually a 'careers' magazine for young graduates) were effectively taken over by important Cambridge academics of the day, all with a specific interest in concrete poetry and kinetic art: Philip Steadman, Stephen Bann and Reg Gadney. The issues of Image dedicated to kinetic and concrete poetry were particularly noteworthy for their commitment to translation and reprinting 'lost' texts, an imaginative use of layout and photography, and enlightening academic essays on their given subjects. This particular issue is entirely dedicated to kinetic art and concrete poetry (as the title suggests), and the editorial (which is idiosyncratically placed in the middle of the publication) reads: 'This issue of IMAGE is largely devoted to Kinetic Art: art, that is, incorporating real movement as opposed to the painted or static illusion of movement.' It is illustrated with a photograph of the editors and contributors - Stephen Bann, Reg Gadney, Frank Popper, Phil Steadman and Citroen - strolling through Paris. The issue features an essay by the concrete poetry specialist Stephen Bann, entitled 'Communication and Structure in Concrete Poetry', which comes with a reprinted letter from Ian Hamilton Finlay to Pierre Garnier, dated September 17th 1963. Translated by Bann are extracts from 'Manifesto for a new poetry, visual and phonic' by the concrete poet Pierre Garnier: 'The word is an element. / The word is a material. / The word is an object.' Also included in this section is a manifesto by Eugen Gomringer, entitled 'from line to consideration', and translated by Mike Weaver. It was 'first printed in augenblick no 2 agis verlag baden-baden 1954'. Works by Augusto de Campos, Ronaldo Azeredo, Decio Pignatari and Haraldo de Campos are also reprinted here. The second academic essay featured is a text by Mike Weaver entitled 'Concrete and Kinetic: the poem as Functional Object', which is illustrated with reproduced typestracts by Dom Sylvester Houedard. Also featured is a text by the editor Philip Steadman, entitled 'Colour Music and the Art of Lumia, and an essay by Reg Gadney entitled 'An Introduction: Kinetic Art', which is illustrated with images of works by Alexander Calder and Alexander Schoffer's Chronus sculptures. There are artist profiles of Frank Malina (by Reg Gadney); Gregoria Vardanega (by Stephen Bann); Martha Boto (by R.G); J-M. Cruxent (by S.B); Andree Dantu (by R.G); Knud Hvidberg and William Soya (by R.G); Nino Calos (by R.G). Condition: near fine (contents fine minor rubbing to covers).

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good +. Book. 265 x 210 mm, 36 pp. in printed stapled wraps. Winter/Spring 1966. Front cover image in colour, contents illustrated with both colour and b/w images. Three issues of Image (usually a 'careers' magazine for young graduates) were effectively taken over by important Cambridge academics of the day, all with a specific interest in concrete poetry and kinetic art: Philip Steadman, Stephen Bann and Reg Gadney. The issues of Image dedicated to kinetic and concrete poetry were particularly noteworthy for their commitment to translation and reprinting 'lost' texts, an imaginative use of layout and photography, and enlightening academic essays on their given subjects. Symbiotic of its artistic agenda, this issue brings together a comprehensive, edited selection of the writings of the Groupe Recherche d'art Visuel (Paris, 1960-65) - many of which had hitherto never been published in translation, and the majority of which were first published in ephemeral catalogues or leaflets. Edited and translated by Stephen Bann and Reg Gadney, their introduction to the manifesto-texts of the Groupe Recherche d'art Visuel reads: 'These writings are not a prescription for kinetic art, nor are they sufficient to define the position of the GRAV on the modern scene. They are the product of a radical reappraisal of the relationship between artist, work and spectator and as such they have a unique interest.' From 1960 is a text declaring the aims of the GRAV, entitled 'Act of Foundation'; from 1961: a statement made by GRAV on the occasion of an exhibition of kinetic art at the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm ('We prefer to consider the artistic phenomenon as an exclusively visual experience on the level of physiology rather than of emotion'); from September 1961: a secondary manifesto entitled 'Enough of Mystification', from 1962: extracts from 'Individual Declarations' by the artists of GRAV; from 1962/3: an extract from a text by Le Parc, entitled 'On the Subject of Art-Spectacle', and a text distributed for the opening of the 3rd Paris Biennale in October 1963; also from 1963, a text entitled ''Instability'-The Labyrith' and a talk by Le Parc at Rimini Congress. A series of questionnaires, from Bann, Gadney and Ohio University, conducted in 1965 (and translated by Annette Kobak), is also included. This issue also features an essay by the art historian and Image contributing editor, Stephen Bann, entitled 'Kinetic Art and Poetry' (a particular attention is given to Ian Hamilton Finlay's kinetic poetry); together with a text by Frank Popper entitled 'Mueller's Machine 'M'', examining the work by Hans-Walter Mueller Machine M, that was shown at the Fourth Biennale of Paris, as well as photographs of Edina Ronay, young actress-daughter of Hungarian gourmet, Egon Ronay. Rare, our last copy. Condition: light wear to front cover, light soiling to left edge of cover and crease to bottom corner, internally fine. Overall: Very good+.

Zustand: Near fine. 240 x 240 mm. 32pp. Printed black and white, stapled. Issue 8 of the most significant British magazine of the 60s concentrating on pure abstraction and through this art theory, avant-garde magazines et al. The contents include Russian Exhibitions 1904 to 1922, Xanti Schawinskys - Spectodrama, and a feature on Pierre Albert-Birot with Barbara Wrights translations from - Grabinoulor. Great Little Magazines No.7 'SIC' with work by Apollinaire, Tristan Tzara, Pierre Albert-Birot. Condition: minor toning and handling to covers, near fine.

Zustand: Very good +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: good. 240 x 240 mm. 32pp. Printed black and white, stapled. Issue 3 of the most significant British magazine of the 60s concentrating on pure abstraction and through this art theory, avant-garde magazines et al. This issue features 'G' with work by Kurt Schwitters, Theo van Doesburg, Mies van der Rohe, Miklos Bandi, Charles Biederman, Victor Pasmore, El Lissitzky, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Robert Binget, Ernst Jandl, Paul de Vree, Kenneth Robinson. Condition: minor toning to covers as seen, minor even toning to pages, no tears or writing, very good + with good only covers.

Zustand: Fine. 240 x 240 mm. 32pp. Printed black and white, stapled. Issue 9 of the most significant British magazine of the 60s concentrating on pure abstraction and through this art theory, avant-garde magazines et al. Number 9: Contents includes articles by Hans Richter, Joost Baljeu, H. H. Stuckenschmidt. 'Notes on Theatre at Black Mountain College (1948-1952)' by Mark Hedden. 'Theo van Doesburg is of Today' by Maurice Agis and Peter Jones. Great Little Magazines section No 8: 'Kulchur' with work by Robert Indiana. Condition: fine.