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Thomas Angela - A Subversive Gleam: Max Bill And His Time: 1908 - 1939 - Paperback
Thomas Angela - A Subversive Gleam: Max Bill And His Time: 1908 - 1939 - Paperback
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Description: The early life of a modernist polymath and concrete - art pioneer: the first of a new two - volume biography by Bill's widow art historian Angela Thomas Swiss artist Max Bill (1908 - 94) was a master of many trades during his lifetime: he was at once an architect graphic designer painter industrial designer and typeface designer. A student of greats such as Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee at the Bauhaus in Dessau Bill developed his own unique practice of integrated design under their tutelage cultivating a more contemporary interpretation of more traditional Bauhaus sensibilities. He went on to become one of the main advocates of the concrete art movement joining the Allianz group of Swiss artists in 1937. In this first volume of a major new biography Bill's widow art historian Angela Thomas recounts the formative years of Bill's life from his childhood in a small Swiss town to his time at the Bauhaus. With a lively cadence that speaks to her intimate knowledge of the architect himself Thomas details Bill's beginnings in Zurich as a young independent designer as part of a larger portrait of Europe's political and artistic world in the decades before World War II. Originally written in German and now translated into English for the first time A Subversive Gleam provides readers with an in - depth account of the origins of one of Europe's most influential designers.
Title: A Subversive Gleam: Max Bill And His Time: 1908 - 1939
Author(s): Thomas Angela
Publisher: Hauser & Wirth
Barcode: 9783906915401
Pages: 736 Pages, 167 Colour, 74 B&W
Publication Date: 3/1/2022
Category: Biography: General
Description: The early life of a modernist polymath and concrete - art pioneer: the first of a new two - volume biography by Bill's widow art historian Angela Thomas Swiss artist Max Bill (1908 - 94) was a master of many trades during his lifetime: he was at once an architect graphic designer painter industrial designer and typeface designer. A student of greats such as Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee at the Bauhaus in Dessau Bill developed his own unique practice of integrated design under their tutelage cultivating a more contemporary interpretation of more traditional Bauhaus sensibilities. He went on to become one of the main advocates of the concrete art movement joining the Allianz group of Swiss artists in 1937. In this first volume of a major new biography Bill's widow art historian Angela Thomas recounts the formative years of Bill's life from his childhood in a small Swiss town to his time at the Bauhaus. With a lively cadence that speaks to her intimate knowledge of the architect himself Thomas details Bill's beginnings in Zurich as a young independent designer as part of a larger portrait of Europe's political and artistic world in the decades before World War II. Originally written in German and now translated into English for the first time A Subversive Gleam provides readers with an in - depth account of the origins of one of Europe's most influential designers.
Title: A Subversive Gleam: Max Bill And His Time: 1908 - 1939
Author(s): Thomas Angela
Publisher: Hauser & Wirth
Barcode: 9783906915401
Pages: 736 Pages, 167 Colour, 74 B&W
Publication Date: 3/1/2022
Category: Biography: General
