Constructive clarity : Max Bill and his time, 1940-1952
Angela Thomas
Bok · Engelsk · 2023
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| Omfang | 796 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | "Max Bill (1908-1994) was one of the most versatile artists of the twentieth century-a designer, painter, sculptor, architect, graphic designer, typographer, writer, curator, mediator, professor, and politician. In the upcoming volume, the art historian Angela Thomas takes up where the first volume of her biography of Max Bill left off (published in German in 2008 and in English in 2022) and now turns her attention to Bill's life during the Second World War and in the immediate postwar years. Against the backdrop of historical events in Switzerland and beyond, Thomas explores Bill's many and varied links with the pioneers of Concrete art and Constructivism, with Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Josef Albers, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Hans Arp, Georges Vantongerloo, and others. The book delves into Bill's time at the Bauhaus in Dessau, his connections with the Parisian avant-garde in the 1930s, his membership of Abstraction-Création, and his lifelong friendship with Vantongerloo. Highlighting the achievements of two of Bill's fellow Zurich Concretists, Richard Paul Lohse and Verena Loewensberg, the author presents a wide- ranging overview of the groundbreaking artistic and intellectual networks that Bill belonged to during the 1940s and early 1950s. Max Bill's importance as an exhibition organizer, writer, and publisher comes to the fore in this volume, as does his crucial influence on the development of Concrete art in South America, and his active interest in urban planning and postwar reconstruction even before the Second World War had come to an end. Drawing widely on literature, newspapers, conversations, and numerous unpublished sources, Angela Thomas guides the reader through Max Bill's biography and sheds new light on the personal, artistic, and political contexts in which he lived and worked"--
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| Emner | Bill, Max , 1908-1994
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| ISBN | 9783906915692
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