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(ARTISTS' MAGAZINES). Steadman, Philip; et al; editors. Form Magazine. Volumes 1-10 [complete]. Photographic plates and reproductions throughout. Contributions by Theo van Doesburg, Charles Henri Ford, Roland Barthes, Mies van der Rohe, El Lissitzky, Kurt Schwitters, Tristan Tzara, Walter Gropius, Kenneth Rexroth, Marcel Breuer, Hans Richter, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Frank Popper, Guillaume Apollinaire, and numerous others. Thin square 8vo, origial stapled pictorial wrappers. Ex-collection Arthur and Elaine Lustig Cohen (Ex-Libris). Cambridge, 1966-69
a complete set of the seminal 1960s british magazine of avant-garde art and theory. Many of the writings included were first translated in Form. It "reevaluated earlier twentieth-century avant-garde movements such as de Stijl, Bauhaus, and Dada, at the very moment that these practices were becoming historical . . . [and] among its practices in emphasized and reassessed was the artists' magazine itself . . . Form clearly understood itself in relationship to this lineage, and the very act of publishing the magazine was a way to retrieve for current practice the significance of the periodical in the historical avant-garde . . . Steadman initially intended to keep publishing the magazine until the issues, when stacked, would produce a perfect cube"--Allen, page 261.
