EX LIBRIS: GRAPHIC DESIGN
Arthur A. and Elaine Lustig Cohen
Cohen, Arthur A. and Elaine Lustig: EX LIBRIS: GRAPHIC DESIGN. New York: Ex Libris, [1983]. First edition. Slim quarto. Stapled printed wrappers. [24] pp. 115 cataloged items for sale. Previous owners’ pencil checkmarks to first page margin, otherwise a fine copy.
7 x 10 stapled catalog with 115 graphic design items for sale, including books, periodicals, catalogs, posters and other ephemera relating to the heroic period of Graphic Design. A very useful reference volume and sought-after artifact from Cohen and Elaine Lustig Cohen's legendary bookstore Ex-Libris.
Ex-Libris catalogs 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?
Illustrated catalog of 115 items for sale by Johannes Molzahn, Jean Carlu, E. Mcknight Kauffer, Willi Baumeister, Alvin Lustig, Herbert Bayer, Walter Dexel, Eugene Berman, El Lissitzky, Henrik Berlewi, A. M. Cassandre, Theo Van Doesburg, Ladislav Sutnar, Jozef Peeters, Paul Schuitema, F. T. Marinetti, Piet Zwart, Willem Sandberg, Jan Tschichold, Alexander Rodchenko, Kurt Schwitters, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Georg Trump, Paul Rand, Joost Schmidt, Karel Tiege, Robert Michel, and Wladyslaw Strzeminski.
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.