Description: GRAPHIC FORMS: THE ARTS AS RELATED TO THE BOOK 1949 Harvard University Press First Edition Contributions by Gyorgy Kepes, W. A. Dwiggins, Paul Rand, Walter Dorwin Teague, Lynd Ward, Merle Armitage, etc. Thomas Wilson [preface]: GRAPHIC FORMS: THE ARTS AS RELATED TO THE BOOK. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1949. First edition. Octavo. Black cloth stamped in gold. Printed dust jacket. 128 pp. text + 44 pp. illustrations. Jacket edges very lightly rubbed. A remarkably well-preserved copy: a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket. Uncommon thus. 6.25 x 9.5 hardcover book with 128 text pages followed by 44 pages of illustrated examples chosen by the respective essayists. Published as an offshoot from a series of conferences sponsored by Harvard in 1948 and 1949. Contents: Publisher's Preface by Thomas J. Wilson Function in Modern Design by Gyorgy Kepes University Press Book Design by P. J. Conkwright Trade Book Designs by W. A. Dwiggins Evaluation by Carl Purington Rollins Black in the Visual Arts by Paul Rand Static and Dynamic Concepts by Walter Dorwin Teague The Illustrator and the Book by Lynd Ward The Author and the Printed Book by Donald Klopper The Avant-Garde by Herschel Levit Experimentation by Enda Beilensen The Function of the Amateur Printer by Peter Beilensen As the Etcher Sees It by Samuel Chamberlain The New Forms . . . And Books by Merle Armitage Tomorrow's Readers by J. Donald Adams Epilogue by Philip Hofer Includes work by Alvin Lustig, El Lissitzky, Le Corbusier, Pablo Picasso, Alexey Brodovitch, Gyorgy Kepes, P. J. Conkwright, W. A. Dwiggins, Carl Purington Rollins, Paul Rand, Walter Dorwin Teague, Lynd Ward, Donald Klopper, Herschel Levit, Edna Beilensen, Peter Beilensen, Samuel Chamberlain, Merle Armitage, J. Donald Adams, Philip Hofer. Please visit my Ebay store for an excellent and ever-changing selection of rare and out-of-print design books and periodicals covering all aspects of 20th-century visual culture. I offer shipping discounts for multiple purchases. Please contact me for details. Payment due within 3 days of purchase.
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