Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life Contributor(s): Witkovsky, Matthew S. (Editor), Ash, Jared (Contribution by), Gough, Maria (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0300166095 ISBN-13: 9780300166095 Publisher: Art Institute of Chicago OUR PRICE: $49.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Design | History & Criticism - Design | Graphic Arts - General - Design | Decorative Arts |
Dewey: 709.04 |
Physical Information: 0.85" H x 9.87" W x 11.69" (2.87 lbs) 160 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Beginning around 1910, vanguard artists demanded that true art go beyond the intellectual and transform daily life. This volume highlights the work of six influential European artists who took this idea into the wider world, where it merged enthusiastically with demands in the industrial marketplace, the nascent mass media, and urban popular culture. Featured are Piet Zwart, a Dutch designer who brought his minimalist aesthetic vision to ubiquitous items like biscuit boxes and postage stamps; Karel Teige, leader of the Czech avant-garde, who produced brilliant book and journal designs; his compatriot Ladislav Sutnar, who brought modernist good design to tableware, clothing, and children's toys; Gustav Klutsis, who pioneered using photomontage for political purposes; Lazar (El) Lissitzky, who produced some of the most exciting book, poster, and exhibition designs of the 1920s and '30s in Germany and Russia; and German artist John Heartfield, who worked exclusively in photomontage to design book covers, journals, and agitational posters for the Communist cause. |