THE AVANT GARDE IN PRINT 5: TYPOGRAPHY
Master Designers in Print 2

Arthur A. Cohen

Cohen, Arthur A.: THE AVANT GARDE IN PRINT 5: TYPOGRAPHY [Master Designers in Print 2]. New York: AGP Mathews/Ex Libris, 1981. First edition. First edition. A fine portfolio consisting of 10 facsimile plates and a folded (6-page) sheet of explanatory text with small illustrations keyed to the plates, housed in Black cardboard folder.

12.25 x 13 portfolio of heavy black paper with pasted title label and diagonal cut pocket inside to hold facsimile sheets.

The prints are intended to be facsimiles are are printed by offset lithography to reproduce the size and colors of the orignals. The colors are printed in flat areas, giving the images a freshness and immediacy that four-color printing from color photographs could never provide. A highly recommended and sought-after artifact from Cohen and Elaine Lustig Cohen's legendary bookstore Ex-Libris.

As Cohen notes, this portfolio series acknowledges the debt paid the pioneers of modern typography for their bold inventivenss and the subtle mastery of the new visual vocabulary where the line between words and forms, type and painting, was diminished and the goal of direct communcation elevated as never before.

THE AVANT GARDE IN PRINT NO. 5: TYPOGRAPHY [Master Designers in Print 2] Contents:

• Guillarme Apollinaire: Calligram "Pablo Picasso"
• Joost Schmidt: Poster for Staatliches Bauhaus
• Jan Tschichold: Cover for special typographic insert Elementare Typographie
• Lajos Kassak: Cover for MA
• El Lissitzky: Cover for periodical ABC
• Karel Teige: Title page for Lodi Jez Dovazi Caj a Kavu
• John Heartfield: Photomontage for cover of Deutschland, Deutschland Uber Alles
• A. M. Cassandre: Typographic composition for Deberny & Peignot
• Henryk Stazewski: Cover for Polish Constructivist journal Praesens
• Solomon Teilingater: Cover design for Slovo Predstaeliaetsia Kirsanovu

Ex Libris Rare Books was founded in 1973 by Elaine Lustig-Cohen and her husband Arthur A. Cohen (1928-1986). She was a graphic designer of no small renown, and he was a theologian, novelist, art and literary critic, who wrote extensively on Modern Art. The couple dealt in important and rare printed material and graphic documentation of International 20th-Century art. Much of their early inventory is now in Museums and international private collections.

Spreads from this volume can be viewed here.

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