The New Typography

W. KANDINSKY: In the balance (S chweres Schweben). Water-colour. 1924 (Neues Museum zu W1esbaden) ...

unity in art out of pure forms and colours and conditions governed by laws. The first to follow this path, starting before the w ...

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The western counterpart of this art form is the Dutch "Neo-plasticism,"• represented by Thea van Doesburg and Mondrian. In contr ...

appear to be in the same plane. In Russia the first step was taken away from these still purely painterly conceptions towards Co ...

W. TATLIN: Konterrelief ...

After the painters themselves had declared war to the death on the "pic­ ture on the wall" and sternly rejected it, we have toda ...

That the most powerful contradictions exist between the worlds of today and yesterday is shown most cle-arly in the relationship ...

LAJOS KASSAK: Relief in wood. paper. and tin new and elementary harmony from surface, colour, and form and their rela­ tionships ...

WALTER DEXEL: Glass picture (Giasbild) 1925-IV ...

autonomous laws, which are independent of nature. Is it then surprising that its representations at first baffle the unsophistic ...

applied to purpose) photomontage, photodrawing. and photo-sculpture also belong to the techniques of modern design. The work beg ...

MAN RAY: Photogram. From the folder uchamps doHicieux.u A new kind of art has appeared recently called ''Verismus."' claiming to ...

in painting is the pure creation of colour and form in "absolute" painting, not merely the painting of "Sachen" (real objects). ...

WILLI BAUMEISTER: Drawing From the book Willi Baumeister, Akadem1scher Verlag, Dr. Fritz Wedekmd & Co., Stuttgart. form, and ...

THE HISTORY OF THE NEW TYPOGRAPHY After the jumble of styles of the eighties. which affected typography as devastatingly as ever ...

from this Workshop, dated 1905, which I set beside the books of Behrens and the Jugendstil typography of Holland as forerunners ...

style which the page allows. We will. if need be, use 3 or 4 different colours and 20 different ·typefaces on the same page. For ...

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their carefully thought-out optical impact expresses the content of the poem. The types generate a hitherto unknown visual stren ...