VALORI PRIMORDIALI no. 1
Orientamenti Sulla Creazione Contemporanea
Franco Ciliberti [Direttore]
Franco Ciliberti [Direttore]; Giuseppe Terragni; Piero Lingeri: VALORI PRIMORDIALI 1 [Orientamenti Sulla Creazione Contemporanea]. Roma : Edizioni Augustea, 1938. First edition [all published]. Spine title: valori primordiali volume primo febbraio 1938 XVI. Text in Italian. Octavo. Thick printed yapped wrappers. Die-cut title page with cellophane strip intact. 149 pp. 29 [xxix] black and white plates. 1 fold-out plate in rear pocket. Multiple paper stocks. Wrappers and endpapers heavily foxed, with random spotting throughout and along textblock edges. Important collection assembled by Franco Ciliberti of the 1930s artistic culture in Rome, Milan and Como concerning “Primordial Values” and “Primordial Group Futurists,” featuring essays and poetry, abstract painting and sculpture, and Rational architecture. Rarely found intact, with OCLC WorldCat locating two copies worldwide, at Northwestern and Harvard. A good copy. Rare.
7.75 x 11.1875 perfect bound and stitched softcover journal with 149 pages of text followed by 29 black and white plates printed on matte stock and one fold-out of floor plans by Lingeri and Terragni. Title page featured a die cut with a cellophane strip highlighing the numeral "1" framed by the die cut. Period typography and letterpress printing throughout. A key document in the Italian Modern Primordial [Functional Rationalism] movement as articulated by Franco Ciliberti.
Includes texts by Massimo Bontempelli, Franco Ciliberti, Berto Ricci [Teoria]; Piero Ravasegna, Marcello Gallian, Emilio Radius, Riccardo Gualino, Silvio Catalano, 3 poems by Salvatore Quasimodo [Creazione]; Antonio Banfi, Carlo Carrà, G. Francesco Malipiero, Anton Giulio Bragaglia, Adriano Ghiron, Raffaele De Grada [I Primordiali]; Giuseppe Tucci, Fausto Torrefranca [L'inesplorato]; Giacomo Prampolini and Ernesto Rogers [I Creatori].
Contains Architecure work samples by Alberto Sartoris, Piero Lingeri, Giuseppe Terragni, Luigi Figini, Pollini, Mariani, Cesare Cattaneo; Painting by Carlo Carra, Giorgio De Chirico, Giorgio Morandi, Pietro Marussig, Achille Funi, Massimo Campigli, Ottone Rosai, Renato Birolli, Virginio Ghiringhelli, Osvaldo Licini, Mauro Reggiani, Atanasio Soldati, Mario Radice, Manlio Rho, and Sculpture by Arturo Martini, Marino Marini, and Lucio Fontana.