EX LIBRIS: RARAE AVES 6
Arthur A. and Elaine Lustig Cohen
Arthur A. and Elaine Lustig Cohen: EX LIBRIS: RARAE AVES 6. New York: Ex Libris, 1985. First edition. Slim quarto. Stapled printed wrappers. 20 pp. Illustrated list of 80 items for sale. Cover design by Tamar Cohen. Design and typography by Elaine Lustig Cohen. A fine copy.
7 x 10 catalog with 20 pages and listing 80 items for sale. A very useful reference volume and sought-after artifact from Cohen and Elaine Lustig Cohen's legendary bookstore Ex-Libris.
Includes items byor about Guillaume Apollinaire,the Staatliches Bauhaus, Architecture, Herbert Bayer, Henryk Berlewi, A. M. Cassandre, Marcel Duchamp, Alfred Jarry, le Corbusier, Piet Modrian, Andre Masson, Kasimir Malevich, Bruno Munari, the Wiener Wekstatte and many others.
EX LIBRIS catalogues have proven themselves to be a consistently invaluable reference for folks interested in 20th-Century Modernism and the related art movements of the Bauhaus, Futurism, Dada & Surrealism, Avant-Garde, Graphic Design, Architecture, Theater, Poster Design, Expressionism, Modern American and European Art Movements, and any other ISM that might tickle your fancy. But if you've read this far, you already knew that, didn't you?
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. Many items that in these illustrated catalogues are impossible to find today, making these catalogues invaluable to collectors, dealers and scholars alike. They remain exceptional research tools overflowing with important objects and information, include scholarly listings, descriptions, photographs and (1980's) prices of all kinds of early 20th-Century ephemera including posters, letterheads, magazines, reviews, brochures, books, stationery, correspondence, posters, advertisements and much more. You have been warned.