Originally conceived as a screenplay by Blaise Cendrars, 'La Fin du monde' was instead published as a novel when funding for the film fell through. The story is a satire in which God, in the guise of a cigar-smoking American businessman, promotes an apocalyptic war on earth as entertainment for the god Mars. In book format the illustrations by Léger become integral to conveying the filmic progression of the text. Amid his illustrations, Léger includes fragments of Cendrars's text as boldly coloured stenciled and block letters; the dynamic, fractured compositions create a simulation of the moving images of film as the pages are turned.

'Die Bühne im Bauhaus'(The Theater of the Bauhaus) is volume 4 in the series Bauhausbücher under editorship of Walter Gropius. The text is a loose collection of essays by Oskar Schlemmer, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Farkas Molnár (who in an illustrated essay shares his vision of a total theatre space), with an introduction by Bauhaus leader Walter Gropius. While each essay develops specific ideas about theatre practice, it is the common themes of form and space that tie this volume together.
Emerging as the central focus of The Theater of the Bauhaus is the work of Oskar Schlemmer, whose concerns about form and space became the subject of a variety of Bauhaus experiments. Essays included are "Man and Art Figure" and "Theater (Buhne)", both by Schlemmer; "Theater, Circus, Variety" by Moholy-Nagy (which includes a 22² x 9² fold-out colour illustration representing a visual synthesis of form, motion, sound, light, and odour for a musical variety show); and "U-Theater" by Molnar. The Bauhaus aesthetic of stage design and presentation are elucidated here by Bauhaus masters themselves.

Donald Evans(1945-1977) was an artist and he painted postage stamps, thousands of them. He made these miniature watercolours as a child in his parents' house and as an adult traveling around the world. On little paper retangles he painted precise transcriptions of his life. He commemorated everything that was special to him, disguised in a code of stamps from his own imaginary countries - each detailed with its own history, geography, climate, currency and customs - all of it representative of the real world but, like real stamps, apart from it in calm tranquillity.
This book divided into two parts tells the story of Evans' life and reproduces in 85 full page plates stamps from twenty-five of the forty two countries that he invented as an adult.

Complete set of the 5 catalogues of this major study of Functionalism in the Netherlands from 1920 to 1960: The seperate titles are: Voorgeschiedenis/Previous History; De Stijl, De Nieuwe Beelding in de Architecture/Neo Plasticism in Architecture; Amsterdam 1920-1960; Rotterdam 1920-1960; CIAM, Volkshuisvesting Stedebouw/Housing Town Planning. . There were 5 seperate exhibitions mounted, each of which shows a different aspect of 'Nieuwe Bouwen'.
Each exhibiton also had a poster; see our collection of posters by Wim Crouwel

ANTIQ.#13575. Copy containing original errata page loosely inserted from the editors in which they announce the re-start of the publication after six years of war. It contains a representative selection of the advertising art of thirty-one countries published in the period 1942 to 1948.
Nice cover design by Hans Schleger. See: Pat Schleger; Zero, Hans Schleger a life of design. page 240.

ANTIQ.#13712. Special issue of the 'Archiv' dedicated to Swiss poster, book and advertising design at the end of the 1920's. Contains written contributions from a.o. Walter Kern, Walter Cyliax, Johannes Itten, Rudolf Bernoulli, Othmar Gurtner, H.Behrmann, Karl Weber, & P. Reinhard. Contains many exceptional full-page illustrations of photo-montage, colour lithography & screen-printing.

Wrappers sligtly worn on the edges and spine, first and last end-papers slightly browned, otherwise very good copy of this scarce homage to Frans Duwaer, who was one of the foremost printers involved in the resistance movement in the Netherlands during the Second World War. He was executed by the Germans on the 10th of June 1944. The contributors to this homage were: 'f.v.g.' (Vordemberge-Gildewart), 'k.j.l.'(K.J.Lak), 'w.s.'(Willem Sandberg).

The most complete study of Sandberg's work; containing many of the texts he wrote between 1950 & 1970, a complete chronological catalogue of all the exhibitions which were organized during his directorship from 1945 to 1962 in the four municipal museums of Amsterdam, and an extensive selection of his typographical designs.

This catalogue preceeded the Stedelijk Museum catalogue ("Hot Printing") and was at that time the most important catalogue of the complete works of Werkman.

Important study of Dutch architecture just following the second World War. Contains a photo inventory of the most important buildings created between 1946 & 1954.

Well illustrated study of Dutch gothic & renaissance wood sculpture, carved furniture and interiors.

Complete catalogue of the Hentrich collection of Art Nouveau Glass; one of the most important collections of its kind. There are extensive bibliographical references in the notes, the catalogue of 458 pieces includes detailed descriptions and bio- bibiliographies of the major artists. Each piece is illustrated.
(Materialien zur Kunst des 19.Jahrhunderts, Band 8.)
Arntzen Rainwater: P393

Excellent catalogue of an important collection of Art Nouveau Glass. The 272 objects are superbly illustratred within the extensively documented catalogue. This volume complements the Hilschenz catalogue of the Hentrich collection in Düsseldorf.
(Materialien zur Kunst des 19.Jahrhunderts, Band 9.)
Arntzen/Rainwater: P408