THIS ITEM IS--------from a great collection of Art books/catalogs, they all came from the amazing collector ELLI BUK (google him) most books have an old price sticker on them from the 90's. you are bidding on the item shown in the pictures (so zoom in to see close ups) and described in the title. ITEM WILL BE SHIPPED BETWEEN CARDBOARD SO YOU GET IT IN THE SAME CONDITON IT LEAVES ME IN.---as shown. dimensions are in inches. if there is anything important to note it will be here---
"Whitefriars Press Ltd. 1958-1961., London., 1958. Between 1953 and 1962, while establishing his own architectural practice, Theo Crosby acted as Technical Editor of Architectural Design magazine, which was seeking to bring a more youthful, vital and progressive approach to the subject than the previously dominant Architectural Review. Whilst at Architectural Design, Crosby attached himself to the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, attended meetings of the Independent Group there, and was particularly impressed by the group's discussions of the impact of mass communication and information theory on architecture and design. It was Crosby who suggested, and steered to completion, what would be the Independent Group's swansong - the watershed exhibition This Is Tomorrow at London's Whitechapel Gallery. In Architectural Design Crosby wrote that the exhibition was "evidence of attempts towards a new sort of order, a way towards that integration of the arts that must come if our culture is not merely to survive, but come truly to life". Whilst Crosby is renowned for his work at AD and later the architectural practice of Pentagram, he was also to edit the little-known arts magazine Uppercase, published between 1958 and 1961. Each issue was printed in an edition of 1000 copies (apart from the final issue of 1500 copies) . there were only 5 issues published. "UPPERCASE is a journal of the graphic arts; it will deal with the whole field of visual communication, and if some of the connections are tenuous, then the reader must bridge the gap with his own experience and imagination . In UPPERCASE we will try to find a correlation between the arts, and attempt to relate them specifically to print. The method will generally be to take a mass of material from an artist and present a typographical equivalent; each issue will thus be an experiment in type within the same overall format." (From Crosby's preface to the first issue). Understandably it is the work of the Independant Group artists which feature in the pages of UPPERCASE:. No.4 (1960) - the sculpture of William Turnbull. light wear only, old sticker on cover, pages not numbered, probably around 50 of so. VERY VERY HARD TO FIND. ------more info-----In the mid-1950s Turnbull bought a number of rare rosewood logs and in subsequent years made a body of beautiful works that continue the theme of the totem-figure. The logs are barely modified instead they are cut and assembled in 'stacks' with other materials. These works took their titles from the protagonists of ancient history and classical mythology - here it is Hannibal, warrior and enemy of Rome. These pieces stand directly on the floor and most are human scale, so allowing a close physical relationship between sculpture and viewer.
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