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The first installment of art historian Dr. Angela Thomas' multi-volume biography of her husband Max Bill, providing a highly unconventional and intimate account of the Swiss polymath's life, work, and thinking.
Max Bill (1908–1994) was a Swiss polymath bridging the worlds of art, design, and architecture. Dr. Angela Thomas, art historian and widow of the artist, retraces Max Bill’s biography, from his childhood to his training at the Bauhaus, his return to Zurich, and on until the late 1930s. She meticulously dissects Max Bill’s journey through his exchanges with his family, teachers, and peers–and their individual respective life trajectories. In a highly unconventional meander through extraordinary biographies, she thus exposes the web-like private and public constellations in which Bill evolved.
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Max Bill was a Swiss polymath bridging the worlds of design, architecture, art, publishing, advertising, and politics. This first part of an comprehensive monograph retraces Bill’s biography from his childhood to his Bauhaus training, his return to Zurich, and on until the late 1930s. The reader discovers a young Bill characterized by commitment, clarity in thinking, a highly critical mind, and a growing network of artists. Part biography, part eulogy, part memoir, this publication proposes insights into the pre-World War II cultural milieu of a European community of artists, designers, and architects.
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Paperback. Condition: New. 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 ThomasSwiss 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. Seller Inventory # LU-9783906915401
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Max Bill war ein Schweizer Universalgelehrter, der die Welten von Design, Architektur, Kunst, Verlagswesen, Werbung und Politik miteinander verband. Dieser erste Teil einer umfassenden Monografie zeichnet Bills Biografie von seiner Kindheit über seine Bauhaus-Ausbildung und seine Rückkehr nach Zürich bis in die späten 1930er Jahre nach. Der Leser lernt einen jungen Bill kennen, der sich durch Engagement, klares Denken, einen äußerst kritischen Geist und ein wachsendes Netzwerk von Künstlern auszeichnete. Diese Publikation ist teils Biografie, teils Lobrede, teils Erinnerung und bietet Einblicke in das kulturelle Milieu einer europäischen Gemeinschaft von Künstlern, Designern und Architekten vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Seller Inventory # 9783906915401
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