Bruno Munari : Design as Art
  • monograph
  • cloth boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 28.5 x 24 cm.
  • 137 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0262200651

Bruno Munari : Design as Art

Bruno Munari, Aldo Tanchis

Bruno Munari : Design as Art

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"One of the last surviving members of the futurist generation, Bruno Munari has been the enfant terrible of Italian art and design for most of this century...this book, itself designed by Munari, is the first comprehensive account of his total achievement. Here the Unreadable Books (that told stories through the possibilities of typography, paper making, and binding), Traveling Sculptures, Fossils of the Year 2000, Theoretical Reconstructions of Imaginary Objects, Original Xerographies, Negative Positives, and the famous Useless Machines of the 1930s (constructions for wagging the tails of lazy dogs, predicting dawn, making sobs sound musical) as well as numerous other works, some published for the first time. The hundreds of illustrations, many in full color, recreate Munari's relentless inventiveness, his love of irony, chance and humor, his intensely experimental orientation and constantly fresh approach to new technologies and materials." -- publisher's statement. Monograph on the Italian artist Bruno Munari. Text by Aldo Tanchis. With notes, bibliography, chronology, and exhibition history. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white and color.

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press,
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