Form Magazine (Complete Set 1-10)
Edited by Philip Steadman, Stephen Bann & Mike Weaver. Also: Charles Biederman, Theo Van Doesburg, Roland Barthes, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, Sidney Hunt, Charles Henri Ford, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ernst Jandl, Paul de Vree, Kenneth Robinson, El Lissitzky, Kurt Schwitters, Mies van der Rohe, Miklos Bandi, Anselm Hollo, Hans Jaffes, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Laszlo Moholy Nagy, John Evarts, Jean Charlot, David Chaloner, Peter Wollen, Abraham Moles, Simon Cutts, Barbara Wrights, Apollinaire, Tristan Tzara, Pierre Albert-Birot, Hans Richter, Joost Baljeu, H. H. Stuckenschmidt, Mark Hedden, Maurice Agis and Peter Jones, Robert Indiana, Gerard Genette, Richard Sherwood, Brik, Arvatov, Mayokovsky.
Published by Form Magazine 1966-1969, Cambridge, 1966
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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. …
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- Title
- Form Magazine (Complete Set 1-10)
- Author
- Edited by Philip Steadman, Stephen Bann & Mike Weaver. Also: Charles Biederman, Theo Van Doesburg, Roland Barthes, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, Sidney Hunt, Charles Henri Ford, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ernst Jandl, Paul de Vree, Kenneth Robinson, El Lissitzky, Kurt Schwitters, Mies van der Rohe, Miklos Bandi, Anselm Hollo, Hans Jaffes, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Laszlo Moholy Nagy, John Evarts, Jean Charlot, David Chaloner, Peter Wollen, Abraham Moles, Simon Cutts, Barbara Wrights, Apollinaire, Tristan Tzara, Pierre Albert-Birot, Hans Richter, Joost Baljeu, H. H. Stuckenschmidt, Mark Hedden, Maurice Agis and Peter Jones, Robert Indiana, Gerard Genette, Richard Sherwood, Brik, Arvatov, Mayokovsky.
- Publisher
- Form Magazine 1966-1969, Cambridge
- Publication year
- 1966
- Condition
- Very Good + / Near Fine
- Binding
- Paperback
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
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