FUTURISM -- DEPERO, Fortunato (1892-1960). Dinamo-Azari. Depero-Futurista 1913-1927 . Milan, New York, Paris, Berlin: Azari, 1927. Oblong 2° (245 x 320mm). Illustrated throughout with striking line block and typographic designs within text, printed mostly on rectos on various papers, some coloured. (Occasional light soiling.) Original grey-green card covers, printed in black and silver, bound with original metallic bolts (light wear at extremities, light sunning, a few shallow creases to one corner). Provenance : 'Dr. Piazza' (gift inscription from the author dated 1928). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY DEPERO. A very good copy of 'one of the avant-garde masterpieces in the history of the book-object' (MoMA/Jentsch 177). The 'bolted book' is an important anthology of work by the Futurist designer Depero, reproducing his theatrical and commercial designs from the period 1913-1927, including several of his designs for Campari advertisements. The preface describes the book as ' bolted like a motor... unclassifiable, and unable to fit into the library with the other volumes... original, invasive and assailing, like Depero and his art.' 'Il Futurismo Mondiale' is a city-by-city roll-call of the avant-garde of the day, referring to all the great from T.S. Eliot, Man Ray, Lissitzky, and Schwitters to Borges. Number 886 of 1000 copies. Andel, Avant-Garde Page Design , p.112.
FUTURISM -- DEPERO, Fortunato (1892-1960). Dinamo-Azari. Depero-Futurista 1913-1927 . Milan, New York, Paris, Berlin: Azari, 1927. Oblong 2° (245 x 320mm). Illustrated throughout with striking line block and typographic designs within text, printed mostly on rectos on various papers, some coloured. (Occasional light soiling.) Original grey-green card covers, printed in black and silver, bound with original metallic bolts (light wear at extremities, light sunning, a few shallow creases to one corner). Provenance : 'Dr. Piazza' (gift inscription from the author dated 1928). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY DEPERO. A very good copy of 'one of the avant-garde masterpieces in the history of the book-object' (MoMA/Jentsch 177). The 'bolted book' is an important anthology of work by the Futurist designer Depero, reproducing his theatrical and commercial designs from the period 1913-1927, including several of his designs for Campari advertisements. The preface describes the book as ' bolted like a motor... unclassifiable, and unable to fit into the library with the other volumes... original, invasive and assailing, like Depero and his art.' 'Il Futurismo Mondiale' is a city-by-city roll-call of the avant-garde of the day, referring to all the great from T.S. Eliot, Man Ray, Lissitzky, and Schwitters to Borges. Number 886 of 1000 copies. Andel, Avant-Garde Page Design , p.112.
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