The definitive illustrated monograph on 20th-century Swiss artist, designer, and architect Max Bill, whose work spanned from graphic design and advertising typography to product and furniture design and from painting to sculpture. A true Renaissance man with a clear, unified aesthetic vision, the Swiss artist, designer, architect and writer Max Bill combined the virtues of homo faber and homo ludens throughout his intensely productive career, launching the Concrete art movement and establishing himself as the single ...
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The definitive illustrated monograph on 20th-century Swiss artist, designer, and architect Max Bill, whose work spanned from graphic design and advertising typography to product and furniture design and from painting to sculpture. A true Renaissance man with a clear, unified aesthetic vision, the Swiss artist, designer, architect and writer Max Bill combined the virtues of homo faber and homo ludens throughout his intensely productive career, launching the Concrete art movement and establishing himself as the single most decisive influence on postwar Swiss graphic design. This gorgeously designed, hefty volume--the most thorough Bill overview ever published in English, and the only monograph in print--presents Bill's oeuvre both chronologically and thematically, across every facet of his multifaceted oeuvre: painting, graphic art, sculpture, architecture, book and magazine design, industrial and furniture design, graphic design and advertising typography--from large-format posters to small inserts in periodicals--as well as his designs for exhibition spaces. Bill stands out for his enormous influence on Latin American geometric art (through his 1951 retrospective at the S???o Paulo Museum of Modern Art), as well as for his essays, his work as an educator and his political and social concerns. All these aspects of his life and work are covered in this profusely illustrated catalogue, along with essays by scholars and a selection of previously unpublished essays by Bill himself. Max Bill (1908-94) studied at the Bauhaus from 1927 to 1928 with Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Oskar Schlemmer, after which he moved to Zurich. He cofounded the Ulm School of Design in Germany in 1951. He had his first US exhibition at the Staempfli Gallery in New York City in 1963 and was the subject of retrospectives at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1974, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City in 1988.
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Add this copy of Max Bill to cart. $15.34, very good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by Fundación Juan March.
Add this copy of Max Bill: Surfaces to cart. $39.95, very good condition, Sold by Eliabooks rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Monica, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1972 by Marlborough-Godard.
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Very Good in Good dust jacket. Numerous full page color plates plus black and white text illustrations. With an essay by Max Bense. Text in English. Published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Marlborough Galleries in Toronto, October 18-November 11, 1972 and in Montreal, November 17-December 9, 1972.; Clean and crisp. A touch of shelf/edge wear to jacket, and previous owner's name neatly covered with a marker to top of inside cover, otherwise in Very Good condition. Not ex-library.; 4to.
Add this copy of Max Bill (Italian Edition) to cart. $43.00, very good condition, Sold by Powell's Books Chicago rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chicago, IL, UNITED STATES, published 1991 by Fidia edizioni d'arte.
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Very Good. 1991. paperback. Pap. Likely inscribed by Max Bill on title page. Some sunning along edges of wraps. Volume lightly creased at top corner. Foxing to endpaper, half-title, edges of text block, but actual text and images clean. A nice copy, with photographic fold-out intact. Very Good. (Subject: Art).
Add this copy of Max Bill. Neue Werke / Recent Works to cart. $43.01, very good condition, Sold by Paul Brown Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ramsgate, UNITED KINGDOM, published by -Marlborough Galerie AG (1972)-.
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Exhibition catalogue 1972. Interview by Margit Staber. Text in German and English. 295x210mm 56 pages illustrated mainly in colour. Card covers with acetate wrap. Very good indeed. We are specialists in Catalogues: Exhibitions, Auctions, Collections, etc., with a picture of the cover available on request. All items are as described and dispatched within 36 hours in a secure package. We are professional booksellers with over 30 years experience and a real-life bookshop. You may order with confidence.
Add this copy of Max Bill: [Catalogue to cart. $44.64, good condition, Sold by Books From California rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Simi Valley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1974 by Buffalo Fine Arts Academy.
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Add this copy of Max Bill to cart. $45.00, very good condition, Sold by C. L. Wilson rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Antonio, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1977 by ABC-Verlag.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Text in English, German. 225 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Copiously illustrated excellent monograph on the artist.
Add this copy of Max Bill to cart. $47.90, good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by Fundación Juan March.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Oversized.
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Fair. HARDCOVER Acceptable-This is a significantly damaged book. It should be considered a reading copy only. Please order this book only if you are interested in the content and not the condition. May be ex-library. Oversized.
Add this copy of Max Bill to cart. $53.25, very good condition, Sold by Books on the Boulevard rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sherman Oaks, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1978 by Rizzoli.
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Very Good in Good dust jacket. 2 1/2" tape-repaired tear to front cover, now protected within mylar cover. Binding tight and straight, Inner pages crisp and clean.
This small monograph/ exhibition catalog does a very creditable job in demonstrating the profound influence this artist had throughout the world. Every art appreciation course, especially about the 20th Century MUST give special attention to this artist and this publication. His profusion of Concrete Art production is the bridge beween the Supremisists, DeStijl, the Prouns and the Minimalists of North America and the Geometric/ Movement work of South America and Europe. Max Bill has been underserved for far too long. This publication deserves to be updated and republished ...SOON. HJ BOTT
