Title & Author:

G : an avant-garde journal of art, architecture, design, and film, 1923-1926 / edited by Detlef Mertins and Michael W. Jennings ; translation by Steven Lindberg with Margareta Ingrid Christian.

Publication:

Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, 2010.

Description:

ix, 269 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm + 2 folded sheets in back pocket

Notes:
"Translation of: G : Material zur Elementaren Gestaltung, nos. 1-6 (1923-26)."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / [Barry Bergdoll] -- Acknowledgments -- Notes to the reader -- Introduction : the G-Group and the European Avant-Garde / Detlef Mertins and Michael W. Jennings -- Contains graphic material : El Lissitzky and the topography of G / Maria Gough -- Toward an elemental cinema : film aesthetics and practice in G / Edward Dimendberg -- Architecture, worldview, and world image in G / Detlef Mertins -- G : materials for elemental form-creation, no. 1 (1923) -- G : materials for elemental form-creation, no. 2 (1923) -- G : materials for elemental form-creation, no. 3 (1924) -- G : materials for elemental form-creation, no. 4 (1926) -- G : materials for elemental form-creation, nos. 5/6 (1926) -- Appendix : contemporary reflections on G -- "A call for elemental art" / Raoul Hausmann, Hans Arp, Ivan Puni, and László Moholy-Nagy -- "Concerning the so-called G Group" / Werner Graeff -- "More on Group G" / Raoul Hausmann.
Translated from German.

Resources:
Electronic bookplate

ISBN:

1606060392 (hardcover)
9781606060391 (hardcover)

Subject:

Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Europe History 20th century.
Arts, European 20th century.
Arts européens 20e siècle.
Arts, European.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Tijdschriften.
Avant-garde.
Kunst.
Bouwkunst.
Vormgeving.
Filmkunst.
Europe.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Jennings, Michael William.
Mertins, Detlef.
G (Periodical)

Avant-garde journal of art, architecture, design, and film, 1923-1926

Holdings:

Location: Library main 270594
Call No.: NX542.G15 2010
Status: Available