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.
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Showing posts with label alphabets. Show all posts
Thursday, 16 April 2015
Friday, 16 January 2015
Burra Alphabet
Labels:
1930,
alphabets,
books,
caricature,
drawing,
Edward Burra,
Humbert Wolfe,
poetry,
theatre
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
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Robert Filliou, General Semantics A-Z, 1967 |
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Fluxus Collective Editions, 1961-5 |
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Fluxkit, after1964 |
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Performance of Philip Corner's Piano Activities, 1962 |
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Joe Jones, Mechanical Fluxorchestra, c.1966 |
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Robert Watts, Events, 1964 |
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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.
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.
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