Jun 14, 2016
the electro-library unplugged. these lil' magazines are now heading back to their homes in the stacks. The website is still charged tho. -ds
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the electro-library unplugged. these lil' magazines are now heading back to their homes in the stacks. The website is still charged tho. -ds
The exhibition THE ELECTRO-LIBRARY is open for viewing in the Cullman Education Building at the Museum of Modern Art. Come check out avant-garde magazines from the 1920s.
Clockwise, from top left: Blok (Warsaw, 1924); Pasmo (Brno, 1925); Merz (Hannover, 1924); Broom (Berlin, 1923); Veshch/Gegenstand/Objet (Berlin, 1922); Integral (Bucharest, 1925); Disk (Prague, 1923); Blok (Warsaw, 1924); ABC: Beiträge zum Bauen (Basel, 1926); Broom (Berlin, 1923); MA (Vienna, 1924); 75HP (Bucharest, 1924). The Museum of Modern Art Library
Detail from Theo van Doesburg aka I.K. Bonset’s Mecano (1923). A manicule pointing at the square.
Lissitzky letterforms on the cover of Veshch = Objet = Gegenstand published in Berlin in 1922. You can also see lines from letterpress plate marks on the inside of the cover.
Detail of the masthead for MA, published by Lajos Kassak in 1924.
Detail of the title page of the Buch neuer Künstler, edited by Lajos Kassak and Moholy-Nagy in 1923.
Detail of the masthead for G: Material zur elementaren Gestaltung. (Berlin, 1923)
Detail from Kurt Schwitters’ Merz issue no. 11, which featured Schwitters’ design work for Pelikan products (Hannover:1924).