il volume e` il catalogo della mostra di milano (palazzo reale, 1989) e presenta le opere che hanno composto la rassegna, una selezione di "cadavres exquis" composti per gioco dai surrealisti a piu` mani e un`ampia antologia di scritti e documenti surrealisti. una sezione di apparati, che comprende un repertorio di periodici e mostre surrealiste, le biografie degli artisti e la bibliografia, completa il catalogo.
Books 5 to 8 in the popular Compact Design Portfolio series profile four modern masters: Eva Zeisel for her elegantly democratic housewares that span a seventy-year career; Ingo Maurer, who raises lighting design and lamps to a high art form; Gaetano Pesce whose rejection of traditional good taste brought about revolutionary furniture design; and George Nelson, the genius behind such classics as the Marshmallow sofa and the Editor 2 typewriter. Stylish, small, and perfect for collecting, Compact Design Portfolio titles are penned by accomplished writers with real knowledge of and fresh enthusiasm for their subjects
This oversize souvenir album, by the collaborators of New York Observed, published to coincide with exhibits at New York City's Jack Gallery and six other NYC institutions, evokes in many photographs and few words the novelties unveiled at the 1939 World's Fair, whose landscape was dominated by the symbolic Trylon and Perisphere, bold structures representing "the global aspirations of democracy and of commercial and industrial enterprise" on the eve of World War II. Heroic as the original Trylon and Perisphere may have been, they spawned a mountain of kitsch--from bookends to salt and pepper shakers--itself a testimonial to American business initiative, and amply displayed here. Yet the coauthors also retrieve artifacts of singular elegance, such as lighting fixtures that uncoil with spare, muscular dignity, and monumental posters.
