A unique look at how Futurism influenced and changed twentieth-century graphic design In the early decades of the twentieth century, European artists, poets, and designers called for the destruction of outdated assumptions about vision and language. Numerous manifestos resulted, demanding new artistic forms. None of these manifestos was more aggressive and poetic, or wider in scope than Filippo Tomasso Marinetti's Futurist Manifesto of 1909. Painting, sculpture, literature, architecture, theatre, cinema, and music were ...
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A unique look at how Futurism influenced and changed twentieth-century graphic design In the early decades of the twentieth century, European artists, poets, and designers called for the destruction of outdated assumptions about vision and language. Numerous manifestos resulted, demanding new artistic forms. None of these manifestos was more aggressive and poetic, or wider in scope than Filippo Tomasso Marinetti's Futurist Manifesto of 1909. Painting, sculpture, literature, architecture, theatre, cinema, and music were all caught up in its net. Typography--until then a distant relative in the arts--also played a major role in Marinetti's program. Written by leading design scholar Alan Bartram, this fascinating book examines the rise and evolution of the Futurists' approach to typography and graphic design, placing it within the context of contemporary artistic and literary movements. The volume features examples of some eighty Futurist books or other designs for print, many of them relatively unknown or previously unpublished, accompanied by new translations of over twenty of the featured texts. Bartram illuminates the complicated meanings of the Futurist designers' graphic works in order to provide a new understanding of their extraordinary and influential visual language.
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Add this copy of Futurist Typography and the Liberated Text to cart. $49.00, like new condition, Sold by Common Crow Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Yale University Press.
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Fine in near fine jacket. First edition, 2005, hardcover with black cloth boards in dust jacket, large octavo, 160pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Book fine, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. DJ near fine with mild edgewear and rubbing, now in archival mylar wrap.
Add this copy of Futurist Typography and the Liberated Text to cart. $62.34, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by Yale University Press.
Add this copy of Futurist Typography and the Liberated Text to cart. $82.00, like new condition, Sold by Studio Books Oregon rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Corvallis, OR, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by Yale University Press.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Black cloth, with spine titles in silver. Quarto. 160 pages. Illustrated throughout. "With examples of over eighty futurist books and other designs for print, with many never before published". [liner notes]. Fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.
