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Books and Pages: Polish Avant-garde and Artists' books in the 20th Century / Rypson, Piotr ; Apollinaire G ; Bayer H ; Berlewi H ; Brecht G ; Carrion U ; Cendrars B ; deCharmoy C ; Delaunay S ; Depero F ; VanDoesburg T ; Duchamp M ; Eluard P ; Ernst M ; Gappmayr H ; Gomringer E ; Goncharova N ; Hausmann R ; Havel V ; Heartfeld J ; Higgins D ; Holzer J ; Indiana R ; Jarry A ; Johnson J ; Johnson R ; Kamensky V ; Kaprow A ; Kassak L ; Kawara O ; Malevich K ; Khlebnikov V ; Klucis G ; Knowles A ; Kostelanetz R ; Kosuth J ; Kruchenykh A ; Kruger B ; Larionov M ; Levis-Mano G ; Lissitzky E ; Lupton E ; Maciunas G ; Mallarme S ; Marinetti FT ; Mayakovsky V ; McLuhan M ; Moeglin-Delcroix A ; Munari B ; Nannucci M ; Petasz P ; Phillpot C ; Queneau R ; Reverdy P ; Reinhardt A ; Rodchenko A ; Roth D ; Rozanova O ; Ruscha E ; Schwitters K ; Themerson F ; Themerson S ; Thomas D ; Tzara T ; Warhol A ; Weiner L ; Zdanevich I ; Zwart P., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35058-36784
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This well illustrated book with 25 essays was published on the occasion of the of the exhibition "Text, Buch, Kunst" presented at the Frankfurt 2000 Book Fair. Rypson contributes a concise introduction that traces the artist book from Kahnewilers's publications of Picasso' Cubist engravings, to the Trans-Siberian Railway, Un Coup de Des by Mallarme, the Russian Avant-garde, the Futurists, Dada and Conceptionalism. Rypson describes six elements in structuring "word space." 1. visual poem 2. layout of a poem 3. cover design 4. typographic composition 5. illustrated book 6. artists' books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000