A Subversive Gleam: Max Bill and His Time. 1908-1939
A Subversive Gleam: Max Bill and His Time. 1908-1939 The early life of a modernist polymath and concrete-art pioneer: the first of a new two-volume biography by Bill's widow, art historian Angela…
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A Subversive Gleam: Max Bill and His Time. 1908-1939
The early life of a modernist polymath and concrete-art pioneer: the first of a new two-volume biography by Bill's widow, art historian Angela ThomasSwiss artist Max Bill (1908-94) was a master of many trades during his lifetime: he was at once an architect, graphic designer, painter, industrial designer and typeface designer. He went on to become one of the main advocates of the concrete art movement, joining the Allianz group of Swiss artists in 1937. A student of greats such as Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee at the Bauhaus in Dessau, Bill developed his own unique practice of integrated design under their tutelage, cultivating a more contemporary interpretation of more traditional Bauhaus sensibilities.
In this first volume of a major new biography, Bill's widow, art historian Angela Thomas, recounts the formative years of Bill's life from his childhood in
A Boy And His Blob
A Phule And His Money
A Time and a Place
Max and Zoe at Break Time
A Man And His Cat 1