Hunt (Sidney, editor). Ray Art Miscellany I, edited by Sidney Hunt [1926], 16 pages of text, illustrated with reproductions of works by Malevich, Schwitters, El Lissitzsky, André Masson Mies van der Rohe, Claude Flight Marcel Janco Sidney Hunt Ben Nicholson De Chirico, Gabo, Moholy-Nagy, texts by Schwitters, Herwarth Walden, Michel Seuphor modernist typographic layout, original printed wrappers, stapled as issued (somewhat rusted), some marks and soiling to covers, slim 8vo (Qty: 1) A rare avant-garde English periodical of the 1920s, edited by Sidney James Hunt (1896-1940), artist, bookplate designer and poet, who was secretary and treasurer of the English Bookplate Society, and succeeded James Guthrie as editor of The Bookplate. Only two issues of Ray were ever published. Despite its slender appearance, the magazine represents the continuation of modernist ideas in England after the short-lived Vorticist journal Blast, edited by Wyndham Lewis published in 1914 and 1915, and the constructivist magazines of the 1930s such as Axis and Circle. No copy recorded of issue 1 at auction. A copy of the second issue of 1927 was sold at Bonham's Oxford, Printed Books, Maps & Photographs, 25 June 2014, lot 71. See Iris Candela, 'The only English periodical of the avant-garde': Sidney Hunt and the journal "Ray"', Burlington Magazine, April 2010, pages 239-244.
Hunt (Sidney, editor). Ray Art Miscellany I, edited by Sidney Hunt [1926], 16 pages of text, illustrated with reproductions of works by Malevich, Schwitters, El Lissitzsky, André Masson Mies van der Rohe, Claude Flight Marcel Janco Sidney Hunt Ben Nicholson De Chirico, Gabo, Moholy-Nagy, texts by Schwitters, Herwarth Walden, Michel Seuphor modernist typographic layout, original printed wrappers, stapled as issued (somewhat rusted), some marks and soiling to covers, slim 8vo (Qty: 1) A rare avant-garde English periodical of the 1920s, edited by Sidney James Hunt (1896-1940), artist, bookplate designer and poet, who was secretary and treasurer of the English Bookplate Society, and succeeded James Guthrie as editor of The Bookplate. Only two issues of Ray were ever published. Despite its slender appearance, the magazine represents the continuation of modernist ideas in England after the short-lived Vorticist journal Blast, edited by Wyndham Lewis published in 1914 and 1915, and the constructivist magazines of the 1930s such as Axis and Circle. No copy recorded of issue 1 at auction. A copy of the second issue of 1927 was sold at Bonham's Oxford, Printed Books, Maps & Photographs, 25 June 2014, lot 71. See Iris Candela, 'The only English periodical of the avant-garde': Sidney Hunt and the journal "Ray"', Burlington Magazine, April 2010, pages 239-244.
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