Showing posts with label alphabets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alphabets. Show all posts

Thursday, 16 April 2015

Eh Joe

Tilson
Pop to Present 
Royal Academy of Arts
London, 2002

I've posted some of these before but this catalogue has better images and the work still looks mighty fine.












Friday, 16 January 2015

Burra Alphabet

ABC of the Theatre
Humbert Wolfe
Illustrated by Edward Burra
The Cresset Press, London, 1930









Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Soviet ABC


I don't speak Russian or read Cyrillic but it's obvious that this textbook was designed to teach kids to read the alphabet. Published in 1989, it was probably one of the last products of the Soviet era, as we can see from the portrait at the start. In the beginning was the word, and the word was Lenin.








Wednesday, 16 July 2014

Re. Flux


Fluxus
Thomas Kellein
Thames & Hudson, London, 1995

Robert Filliou, General Semantics A-Z, 1967

Fluxus Collective Editions, 1961-5


Fluxkit, after1964

Performance of Philip Corner's Piano Activities, 1962

Joe Jones, Mechanical Fluxorchestra, c.1966


Robert Watts, Events, 1964

La Monte Young, The Tortoise: His Dreams and Journeys, 1964

Tuesday, 3 June 2014

Pop Book Box

Image as Language
Aspects of British Art 1950-1968
Christopher Finch
Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middx, 1969

A graduate of Chelsea School of Art, Christopher Finch (b.1939) worked as designer for New Worlds magazine and also wrote about contemporary art in many journals and books. This book on British Pop Art covers most of the usual suspects, and despite suffering from rather lackluster black and white reproductions, Finch presents some interesting thoughts on Pop's relationship with the culture and media of the period.

I particularly like Joe Tilson's A-Z Box of Family and Friends (1963), in which Tilson constructed the box and asked his Pop chums such as Peter Blake, Allen Jones, Peter Phillips and so on, to contribute items to fill it.