£50.00
Cambridge: Form, n.d. (1967)
24.5 x 24.5cm, 32cm (self cover). Stapled. A single issue of the magazine which was published and designed by Phillip Steadman and often reproduced important texts by key artistic pioneers. This issue was released to correspond with the ‘Brighton Festival Exhibition of Concrete Poetry’ and features a map and index of works alongside a text by curator Stephen Bann. Other articles include translation of ‘The first years of Concrete Poetry’ by Eugen Gomringer, an essay by Lewis Shelley on the Black Mountain College, Albers on ‘My courses at the Hochschule fur Gestaltung at Ulm’, and Irving Finkelstein on Albers’ “Graphic Tectonics”. Additionally Lev Nusberg on “What is Kinetism?’and Charles Biederman on ‘A Non-Aristotelian Creative Reality’. There is poetry by Anselm Hollo, alongside ‘Two Men’ by Kurt Schwitters and ‘Towards a Constructive Poetry’ by I.K. Bonset (aka Theo von Doesburg) and a “Manifesto on the Lawfulness of Sound” by Raoul Hausmann. Wrappers are a noit browned near the edges else VG+.
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