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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Includes essays on Julio Le Parc and Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, a poem by Charles Tomlinson, and more. Text and images are unmarked; pages are bright, though the page edges are a little age toned. Stapled binding is tight and square. Covers show some light edge wear.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First edition, first printing. Includes essays on Julio Le Parc and Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, a poem by Charles Tomlinson, and more. Text and images are unmarked; pages are bright, though the page edges are a little age toned. Binding is tight and square. Covers show some light edgewear. From the collection of the Gotham Book Mart. 32pp.

Condition: Good. 240 x 240 mm. 32pp. Printed black and white, stapled. Issue no. 7 of Form magazine. The most significant British magazine of the 1960s concentrating on pure abstraction and through this art theory, avant-garde magazines et al. This issue includes features on Kinetic Art in Czechoslovakia and Kinetic Film, Cinema and Semiology, New American Photography and Great Little Magazines. Contributors include Alice Andrews, Robert W. Fchter, Roger Mertin, Reginald Heron, Thomas F. barrow, Joel Meyerowitz, Simon Cutts, Peter Wollen, Jan Slavik. Condition: Spotting, handling and wear to covers and some pages. As seen, first four pages have heavy crease top right corner. No tears or writing. reference copy only. Good.

Card covers, stapled spine. Condition: Good in wraps. First Edition. 25 x 25cm 32pp good card-covered magazine, some slight browning to wrappers, a slight crease at corner of rear wrapper. Contents include: 'The Kinetic Film 'Volumes'' by Jan Slavik, 'cinema and Semilogy: Some Points of Contact' by Peter Wollen and 'New American Photography, The Authentic Vision' by Mike Weaver.

Paperback. Condition: very good. Book. 245 x 245 mm, 32 pp. in stapled, printed wraps. Special issue of the groundbreaking art, architecture and literary magazine FORM, which was edited by influential Cambridge academics of the period, and was noteworthy for republishing and translating avant-garde texts. This particular issue is dedicated to the 'Brighton Festival Exhibition of Concrete Poetry'. Features a map and index of the works exhibited (the exhibition was directed by FORM editor Stephen Bann), as well as a translation of 'The first years of Concrete Poetry' by Eugen Gomringer. This issue also includes: an essay by Lewis Shelley on the avant-garde Black Mountain College (the first in a series); an essay by Joseph Albers entitles 'My courses at the Hochschule fur Gestaltung at Ulm', and an essay on 'Albers' 'Graphic Tectonics' by Irving Finkelstein'; 'What is Kinetism?' by Lev Nusberg - translated from his manifesto; 'Symmetry: Nature and the Plane' and 'A Non-Aristotelian Creative Reality' by Charles Biederman; poetry by Anselm Hollo, and a section on 'Great Little Magazines', with this particular issue focused on 'Mecano', which was edited by Theo von Doesburg. Reprinted from 'Mecano' here is 'Two Men' by Kurt Schwitters, 'Towards a Constructive Poetry' by I.K. Bonset (aka Theo von Doesburg) and 'Manifesto on the Lawfulness of Sound' by Raoul Hausman (translated by Richard Taylor'. Ref: Allen, Artist's Magazines, MIT Press, 2011. p. 261 Condition: crease to front cover as seen, minor toning to covers, internally near fine. Overall very good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Top inner corners of front and back covers are creased. Inside is clean and unmarked.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No jacket. Cover is lightly worn along edges. Half centimeter vertical tear from bottom edge of front cover. Cover and pages are lightly tanned, but otherwise clean and unmarked.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Square quarto, 32 pages, illustrated throughout in black and white. Illustrated wrappers. Wrappers slightly soiled. - First edition. Summary: Black Mountain College: The Founding of the College, Lewis Shelley; The Hochschule at Ulm by Josef Albers; Albers' 'Graphic Tectonics, by Irving Finkelstein; Brighton Festival Exhibition of Concrete Poetry Exhibition notes and map; The Early Days of Concrete Poetry by Eugen Gomringer; What is Kinetism?, by Lev Nusberg; Symmetry, Nature and the Plane + A Non-Aristotelian Creative Reality by Charles Biedermann; The Coherences by Anselm Hollo; Great Little Magazines: No. 4. Mécano: Two Men Kurt Schwitters; Towards a Constructive Poetry by I.K. Bonset + Manifesto on the Lawfulness of Sound by Raoul Hausmann.

Condition: Very Good+. 240 x 240 mm. 32pp. Printed black and white, stapled. Issue no. 7 of Form magazine. The most significant British magazine of the 1960s concentrating on pure abstraction and through this art theory, avant-garde magazines et al. This issue includes features on Kinetic Art in Czechoslovakia and Kinetic Film, Cinema and Semiology, New American Photography and Great Little Magazines. Contributors include Alice Andrews, Robert W. Fchter, Roger Mertin, Reginald Heron, Thomas F. barrow, Joel Meyerowitz, Simon Cutts, Peter Wollen, Jan Slavik. Condition: Some light toning to covers, Internally and overall Very Good+.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. No. 10. Oblong small quarto. 36pp. Illustrated, with a cover image by Rodchenko. Stapled self-wrappers. Light general wear and first few leaves with a small area of creasing and a tiny tear in the bottom margin, just about near fine. Prints "Structuralism & Literary Criticism" by Gerard Genette; "The Aesthetic of Ian Hamilton Finlay" by Simon Cutts; poems by Jiri Valoch and R. C. Kenedy; "Art in Crisis" by Charles Biederman; "Skullshapes" by Charles Tomlinson; and material regarding the little magazine *LEF*. Steadman designed and published 10 issues of *Form* between 1966 and 1969. His purpose, as stated in the first issue, was "to publish and provoke discussion of the relations of form to structure in the work of art, and correspondences between the arts. Emphasis is to be placed in particular on the fields of kinetic art and concrete poetry.".

Paperback. Condition: Very Good + / Near Fine. 1st Edition. FORM MAGAZINE. Complete set: Issues 1-10. (Summer) 1966- (October )1969.The most significant British magazine of the 60s concentrating on pure abstraction and through this art theory, architecture, avant-garde magazines et al. Interest in FORM itself has grown in recent years: while studying for his Ph.D. the Portuguese architect Joaquim Moreno made a particular study of the magazine, contending that it is essentially a magazine about little magazines of the avant-garde. Moreno was part of the research group that produced 'Clip Stamp Fold' (M + M books, Princeton, 2011), which features interviews with Bann and Steadman. Issues often include a Great Little Magazines section. Each issue is about 9.5 inches square, illustrated, with 32pp (apart from one issue with 36pp). Number 1: Contents includes Film as Pure form by Theo Van Doesburg (first translation of 1929 essay), The Activity of Structuralism by Roland Barthes, Experimental Aesthetics by Carlyn Cumming, essay on Fernand Leger, Great Little Magazines No.1 : Secession with work by William Carlos Williams, Hans Arp Yvor Winters / Number 2: Contents includes Le Parc and The Group Problem by Frank Popper; A Little Night Music by Charles Tomlinson; Articles by Gillo Dorfles; Poem by Charles Tomlinson; William Carlos Williams on Emanuel Romano. Great Little Magazines No.2: Blues with work by Gertrude Stein, Sidney Hunt, Parker Tyler, Kenneth Rexroth, Charles Henri Ford./ Number 3: Contents includes Poems by Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ernst Jandl, Paul de Vree, Kenneth Robinson. Articles on and by Charles Biederman and 'The Electrical -Mechanical Spectacle' by El Lissitzky. Great Little Magazines No 3: 'G' with work by Kurt Schwitters, Theo van Doesburg, Mies van der Rohe, Miklos Bandi./ Number 4: Contents includes: Brighton Concrete Poetry Exhibition , notes, map & full review (exhibition organised by Form's editors), Black Mountain College, Albers 'Graphic Tectonics', 'What is Kentetism' ? Two essays by Charles Biederman, Poems by Anselm Hollo. Review of Mecano magazine in Great Little Magazines No.4 (therefore discussion of Van Doesburg) - which includes translation of Van Doesburg text. / Number 5: Contains Hans Jaffes - De Stijl and Architecture, features on Bernard Lassus and Raul Hausmann, and in the Black Mountain Series John A. Rice, George Zabriskie and designs for college buildings by Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. Great Little Magazines No.5 'RAY' with work by Sidney Hunt, I. K. Bonset ( Theo Van Doesburg) and Kurt Schwitters./ Number 6: The contents include essays on Russian unofficial art, and on the work of Laszlo Moholy Nagy; John Evarts and Jean Charlot writing on Black Mountain; and poems by David Chaloner. Great Little Magazines No.6 'De Stijl' (Part 1). / Number 7: March / 1968. Contents include Kinetic Art in Czechoslovakia, Cinema and Semiology, by Peter Wollen, new American Photography, Abraham Moles on Vasarely. Airfields by Simon Cutts. Great Little Magazines No.6 'De Stijl' (author index part 2). / Number 8: The contents include Russian Exhibitions 1904 to 1922, Xanti Schawinskys - Spectodrama, and a feature on Pierre Albert-Birot with Barbara Wrights translations from - Grabinoulor. Great Little Magazines No.7 'SIC' with work by Apollinaire, Tristan Tzara, Pierre Albert-Birot. / Number 9: Contents includes articles by Hans Richter, Joost Baljeu, H. H. Stuckenschmidt. 'Notes on Theatre at Black Mountain College (1948-1952)' by Mark Hedden. 'Theo van Doesburg is of Today' by Maurice Agis and Peter Jones. Great Little Magazines section No 8: 'Kulchur' with work by Robert Indiana./ Number 10: The Aesthetic of Ian Hamilton Finlay by Simon Cutts. Art in Crisis by Charles Biederman, Structuralism & Literary Criticism by Gerard Genette. Great Little Magazines : LEF by Richard Sherwood & articles from LEF by Brik, Arvatov, Mayokovsky. Together with printed letter from the editor, Philip Steadman, sent to contributors when the magazine finished & flier for Form subs.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. STEADMAN, Philip, Mike WEAVER, and Stephen BANN, editors. Form No. 4. Cambridge, Philip Steadman, 15 April 1967. Fourth issue of Form, the groundbreaking art, architecture and literary magazine. Form was a British periodical edited by three Cambridge academics, aiming to stimulate discussion on the interplay between form and structure in art and explore connections between different art forms. Focused on kinetic art and concrete poetry, it featured contributions from contemporary artists, poets, writers, and critics, as well as republished and translated avant-garde texts. This fourth issue contains articles by notable figures such as Josef Albers, Anselm Hollo, and Lev Nusberg. Quarto (24.5 x 24.5 cm), illustrated throughout; overall good (lightly toned, wrappers slightly soiled).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. STEADMAN, Philip, Mike WEAVER, and Stephen BANN, editors. Form No. 3. Cambridge, Philip Steadman, 15 December 1966. Third issue of Form, the groundbreaking art, architecture and literary magazine. Form was a British periodical edited by three Cambridge academics, aiming to stimulate discussion on the interplay between form and structure in art and explore connections between different art forms. Focused on kinetic art and concrete poetry, it featured contributions from contemporary artists, poets, writers, and critics, as well as republished and translated avant-garde texts. This third issue contains articles by notable figures such as Ernst Jandl, Mies van der Rohe, and Theo van Doesburg. Quarto (24.5 x 24.5 cm), illustrated throughout; overall good (lightly toned, wrappers slightly soiled).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. STEADMAN, Philip, Mike WEAVER, and Stephen BANN, editors. Form No. 2. Cambridge, Philip Steadman, 1 September 1966. Second issue of Form, the groundbreaking art, architecture and literary magazine. Form was a British periodical edited by three Cambridge academics, aiming to stimulate discussion on the interplay between form and structure in art and explore connections between different art forms. Focused on kinetic art and concrete poetry, it featured contributions from contemporary artists, poets, writers, and critics, as well as republished and translated avant-garde texts. This second issue contains articles by notable figures such as Gillo Dorfles, Frank Popper, and William Carlos Williams. Quarto (24.5 x 24.5 cm), illustrated throughout; overall good (lightly toned, wrappers slightly toned and creased, torn at head and foot, one short marginal tear).