HERBERT BAYER : The Complete Work top by Arthur A. Cohen / Bauhaus, Design, Graphic Design, Lettering, Painting, sculpture, Modern art, vintage

Herbert Bayer - The Complete Works

by Arthur A. Cohen
publisher: Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.], 1984 Larger paperbound wraps with much sunning / fading to covers (see photos); light corner wear else good 429 pp., with color and black and white plates. Includes bibliography and index.
For over half a century Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), one of the original masters of the Bauhaus, did pioneering work in all of the fine and applied arts. This is the first book to present a comprehensive survey of Bayer's enormous oeuvre; Arthur A. Cohen traces the development of Bayer's visual ideas across six decades and as many genres, proving that Bayer—more than any of his Bauhaus colleagues—produced an art that simultaneously expressed the needs of an industrial age and the impulse of the avant-garde.

Bayer himself served as the art director ... volume. It is lavishly illustrated with 43 color and 350 black-and-white plates, many of which come from Bayer's own archive and have never before appeared in print. In accordance with Herbert Bayer's sixty-year commitment to the use of the lowercase alphabet, all 32 of his essays included here are set in . top