OPUS INTERNATIONAL 4
Décembre 1967
Jean-Clarence Lambert [Editor], Roman Cieslewicz [Designer]
Jean-Clarence Lambert [Editor], Roman Cieslewicz [Designer]: OPUS INTERNATIONAL 4. Paris: Editions Georges Fall, Décembre 1967. Text in French. Quarto. Perfect bound thick printed wrappers. 104 pp. Illustrated articles and advertisements. Period correct graphic design, typography and cover design by Roman Cieslewicz. Wrappers lightly shelfworn, but a very good or better copy.
7 x 10.5 softcover journal with 104 pages fully illustrated in black and white.
Opus International was conceived by a collective of art critics determined to open Paris and the French art world to a new era. Under the leadership of the publisher Georges Fall , founder of the collection “The Pocket Museum,” and served by the art direction of Roman Cieslewicz, this review assembled contributors from a variety of backgrounds including Jean-Clarence Lambert , who proposes the title of the journal, Anne Tronche , Pierre Gaudibert , Alain Jouffroy , Gérald Gassiot-Talabot , Jean-Louis Pradel , Raoul Jean Moulin , Jean-Jacques Lévêque and Denise Miège. “We wish, without any prejudice or prejudices, to invite to the confrontation all those for whom the present is a function of a future of which they do not want to be disappointed”wrote Publisher publisher Georges Fall in April 1967.
- Vers un nouvelle Art Soviétique by Raoul-Jean Moulin
- Vladimir Tatlin by Alexandre Rodtchenko
- Manifeste des Présidents du Globe Terrestre by Velimir Khlebnikov
- Ouverture à Moscou by Jindrich Chalupecky
- Quelques jeunes peintures by Miroslav Lamac
- Nusberg: Lumière et movement by Jiri Padrta
- Manifeste du groupe "Dvijenié": Les cinetistes de Moscou
- Une appreciation humaine du monde by Vladimir Jankilevski
- Anti-mondes by Vladimir Vozniessienski
- U.S. Résistance
- Le Dos au Mur by Allen Ginsberg
- Cieux brûlants, idiot by William Burroughs
- New York–San Francisco by Allen Ginsberg
- Juillet 1967 by Claude Pélieu
- San Francisco le 27 Septembre by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- New York le premier Novembre by Dore Ashton
- Tombant by Bob Kaufman
- Malaval blanc puis rose by André S. Labarthe
- Michel Cournot tourney "les Gauloises bleues" by Alain Jouffroy
- Architecture active à Grenoble by André Wogenscky
- Un reverie sur la matière by Jean-Jacques Lévêque
- Suède: la Paix Dorée by Jean-Clarence Lambert
- Stockholm et la guillotine by Alain Jouffroy
- le jeu des metamorphoses by Max Walter Svanberg
- Le grand jeu d'Oyvind Fahlström by Gérald Gassiot-Talabot
- Opus Actualités
Roman Cieslewicz is never neutral. His images, his typography, his layouts never convey indifference. They look out at the world, characterize the age, bear witness, speak of disquiet and shame and sometimes of horror. They carry extreme critical exaltation into the realms of terror itself. They cut the easy conscience to the heart.
Roman Cieslewicz is considered one of the twentieth century's most influential poster artists. In his interview with Margo Rouard-Snowman, he lamented that "Posters need powerful occasions and significant subjects, which they don't find at the moment. As a means of communication they belong to another age and have very little future."
In 1955 Roman Cieslewicz graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. He was predominantly a (politically conscious) poster designer. He and his colleagues Julian Palka, Waldemar Swierzy, Jan Lenica, Henryk Tomaszewski and others made more than 200 Polish film posters a year. He migrated to France in 1963 and was naturalized in 1971. As well as posters he designed books, magazines and displays. He was art director of Elle and Vogue and of the advertising agency Maffia. By using photography, collage, screen-printing, typography and other media, he created a new vocabulary of graphic expression.
He designed for the magazines Opus International (1967–69) and Kitsch (1970–71). The Musée des Art Décoratifs, Galeries Lafayette, Hachette, the Centre Pompidou, and the Musée Picasso were among his clients. His exhibitions were held in major cities all over the world. Throughout his career, Cieslewicz received many medals and honours. [via AGI by Ben and Elly Bos]