Fernand Léger Introduction (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st. Cloth, xiv, 221 pages, illustrations, portraits; 22 cm. English translation of author's Fonctions de la peinture, 1965, Gonthier, Paris. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with moderate edgewear/closed tear on the front cover, protected in a mylar cover. *** CONTENTS: Publishers' note; Preface, by George L.K. Morris; Introduction, by Edward F. Fry; Chronology; The origins of painting and its representational value (1913); Contemporary achievements in painting (1914); A critical essay on the plastic quality of Abel Gance's film The Wheel (1922); Notes on contemporary plastic life (1923); Notes on the mechanical element (1923); The spectacle: light, color, moving image, object-spectacle (1924); Ballet Me canique (c. 1924); The machine aesthetic: the manufactured object, the artisan, and the artist (1924); The machine aesthetic: geometric order and truth (1925); The ballet-spectacle, the object-spectacle (1925); Popular dance halls (1925); The street: objects, spectacles (1928); Abstract art (1931); New York (1931); The wall, the architect, the painter (1933); Speaking of cinema (1933); The new realism (1935); The new realism goes on (1937); Color in the world (1938); The human body considered as an object (1945); The painter's eye (1946); Art and the people (1946); Modern architecture and color (1946); How I conceive of the figure (1949); A new space in architecture (1949); Mural painting and easel painting (1950); The problem of freedom in art (1950); Modern painting (1950); The circus (1950); Mural painting (1952); New conceptions of space (1952); Color in architecture (1954); The Spartakiades (1960); A bibliographical guide to Le ger, by Bernard Karpel. Size: 8vo. Collectible.…

Cloth. dj. 1st edition. 1st edition. A Near Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket. Tall 4to., 114 pp., illustrated with 73 color plates, tipped onto caption pages, The dust jacket has wear at the spine's ends, and has its publisher's acetate jacket , which has a few tears along its edges.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Octavo, 84 pages, portrait of leger + 30 black and white illustrations. Typographic wrappers by Armin Hofmann. - First edition. Exhibition from May 22 - June 23, 1957. Lists 124 works.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st. 111 pages, illustrations (some colour), portrait; 29 cm. Edition of 1000 copies, designed by Herbert Matter. Exhibition '62/2, February 28 to April 29, 1962. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. Size: 4to. Collectible.

Softcover. Condition: vg to fine. Facsimile edition. 800/1000. Quarto. Unpaginated. 6pp (text), 80pp (photographs), (2)pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over blind wrappers, with blue lettering on cover and spine, housed in gray cloth clamshell box with black lettering on paper label laid to debossed square on cover; black lettered paper label on spine. Facsimile reproduction of "Paris" by Moshé Raviv-Worobeichic (Moï Ver) from copy No. 1 of the first edition published in 1931 by Editions Jeanne Walther. Introduction by Futurist Fernand Léger. Facsimile edition of "this revolutionary work which introduced Moï Ver to the world is a striking tour de force of photomontage utilizing Bauhaus style photography and design. Its 80 pages of avant-garde photomontages evoke a modern form of Paris through his visualizations. The method in which Moï Ver chose to present his material, in its kaleidoscopic layering and frenzied repetitiveness, emphasizes an experimental approach to picture-construction. In this sense, Paris remains the author's quintessential avant-garde book object. The jacket's front cover superimposes factory smokestacks upon a classic stone colonnade, thus setting up familiar juxtapositions: art and industry, antique and modern, beauty and banality. Moï Ver's Paris is a metropolis pulsating with fast-paced daily life, moving almost out of control. Cobblestone streets, bustling crowds, facades, railway tracks, bridges, the glittering river, and countless monuments shift and shatter here" (Andrew Roth: "The Book of 101 Books," pp. 70-71). It is interesting to note that Karl Lagerfeld's facsimile edition of this work features the photographs in a different order, which seems to indicate that the legendary designer's copy was at some point disbound, with pages mixed up, and rebound without following the original pagination. Provenance: the legacy of French painter Charles Marcel Jean Picart Le Doux (1902-1982). Text in French.…

Softcover. Condition: vg- to near fine. Limited First edition. 1/1000. Quarto. Unpaginated. 40 unpaginated double-sided printed leaves (including 72 pages of photographic images). 4 of the leaves as issued (8 pages of photographs) are missing. Photo-illustrated wrappers with blue lettering on the front cover and spine. Protected in modern mylar, housed in a modern elegant custom gray cloth clamshell box, with gilt lettering labeled on the spine. Glassine wrappers laid in. Introductory text by acclaimed French modern artist Fernand Léger. Copy #98 from a limited edition of 1000 copies, numbered on the colophon at the back. This acclaimed photo-book is a "revolutionary work which introduced Moï Ver to the world is a striking tour de force of photomontage utilizing Bauhaus style photography and design. Its 80 pages of avant-garde photomontages evoke a modern form of Paris through his visualizations. The method in which Moï Ver chose to present his material, in its kaleidoscopic layering and frenzied repetitiveness, emphasizes an experimental approach to picture-construction. In this sense, Paris remains the author's quintessential avant-garde book object. The jacket's front cover superimposes factory smokestacks upon a classic stone colonnade, thus setting up familiar juxtapositions: art and industry, antique and modern, beauty and banality. Moï Ver's Paris is a metropolis pulsating with fast-paced daily life, moving almost out of control. Cobblestone streets, bustling crowds, facades, railway tracks, bridges, the glittering river, and countless monuments shift and shatter here" - (Andrew Roth: "The Book of 101 Books," pp. 70-71). A highly influential and groundbreaking photographic artist's book of the 20th century, the techniques utilized by Moi Ver powerfully convey the kinetic energy and chaos of the Parisian cityscape. Text in French. Wrappers with light age toning and a few small stains along the edges of the front cover. Spine professionally restored but slightly stained, with repairs to the head and tail. Original contemporary bookseller's labels pasted to the interior front cover and bottom of the front free endpaper. Aside from the previously mention missing leaves the interior is very clean, with only a very minor stain on the interior rear cover (flap). Binding tight. Box in near fine, wrappers in very good-, interior in very good+ condition overall. [WITH FACSIMILE EDITION] Moï Ver. Paris. 80 Photographies. 1/100. Paris. Editions 7L, 2004. Limited edition. 44 unpaginated double-sided printed leaves (including 80 pages of photographic images). Housed in its grey cloth clamshell box as issued. A faithful and finely produced complete facsimile of the original publication. Copy #641 from a limited edition of 1000 copies, hand-numbered in pencil on the colophon at the back. In fine as new condition.…

Softcover. Condition: vg+ to near fine. Limited first edition. 1/1000. Quarto. 44 unpaginated double-sided leaves (including 80 pages of photographic images). Photo-illustrated wrappers with blue lettering on the front cover and spine. Glassine wrappers and modern mylar. Copy #286 from a limited edition of 1000 copies, numbered on the colophon at the back. Introductory text by acclaimed French modern artist Fernand Léger. This acclaimed photo-book is a "revolutionary work which introduced Moï Ver to the world is a striking tour de force of photomontage utilizing Bauhaus style photography and design. Its 80 pages of avant-garde photomontages evoke a modern form of Paris through his visualizations. The method in which Moï Ver chose to present his material, in its kaleidoscopic layering and frenzied repetitiveness, emphasizes an experimental approach to picture-construction. In this sense, Paris remains the author's quintessential avant-garde book object. The jacket's front cover superimposes factory smokestacks upon a classic stone colonnade, thus setting up familiar juxtapositions: art and industry, antique and modern, beauty and banality. Moï Ver's Paris is a metropolis pulsating with fast-paced daily life, moving almost out of control. Cobblestone streets, bustling crowds, facades, railway tracks, bridges, the glittering river, and countless monuments shift and shatter here" - (Andrew Roth: "The Book of 101 Books," pp. 70-71). A highly influential and groundbreaking photographic artist's book of the 20th century, the techniques utilized by Moi Ver powerfully convey the kinetic energy and chaos of the Parisian cityscape. Text in French. Light chipping and closed tears to the head and tail of the spine, with light rubbing to the front hinge and the very edges of the wrappers. Interior with very minor smudging to the endpapers. Wrappers in very good+, interior in near fine condition overall. Bibliographic references: Andrew Roth, The Book of 101 Books, pp. 70-71; Parr/Badger, v1 p.128-129; Open Book p.100-101; Auger 174.…