LE MOUVEMENT DE L'ESPACE
TYPOGRAPHIQUE ANNEES 1920-1930
Andre Belleguie
Andre Belleguie: LE MOUVEMENT DE L'ESPACE. TYPOGRAPHIQUE ANNEES 1920-1930. Paris: Jacques Damase Editeur, 1984. Text in French. Squarish quarto. Lamintated printed French-folded wrappers. 120 pp. Black and white work examples. Wrapper lamination peeling to edges and yellowed. A very good or better copy of an uncommon catalog.
8.5 x 7.75 softcover catalog with 120 pages of early Avant-garde typographic experiments by H. N. Werkman, Piet Zwart, Wladyslaw Strzeminski, Viking Eggeling, Paul Schuitema, and Henryk Berlewi. French text with English-translated introduction by Vivienne Menkes.
Individual sections with biographies on:
- H. N. Werkman
- Piet Zwart
- Wladyslaw Strzeminski
- Viking Eggeling
- Paul Schuitema
- Henryk Berlewi
Andre Belleguie traces the history of Avant-Garde typography from 1920 to 1930 through the work of 6 European designers. Belleguie argues that these typographers all contributed to a parallel history of art, working in the shadows of the "isms" such as DaDa, De Stijl, Constructivism, the Bauhaus etc. A nice expansion of and elaboration on Herbert Spencer’s PIONEERS OF MODERN TYPOGRAPHY [London: Lund Humphries, 1969], with many unusual examples reproduced. Highly recommended.