Gomringer Eugen Ed (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First US Edition. Slight bumping to boards. Unclipped DJ, slight edgewear and rubbing. Solid binding and clean text. No ownership marks, ex-lib marks, stamps or stickers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Unpaginated pages.

Paperback. Condition: very good. Book. 245 x 245 mm, 32 pp. in stapled, printed wraps. Special issue of the groundbreaking art, architecture and literary magazine FORM, which was edited by influential Cambridge academics of the period, and was noteworthy for republishing and translating avant-garde texts. This particular issue is dedicated to the 'Brighton Festival Exhibition of Concrete Poetry'. Features a map and index of the works exhibited (the exhibition was directed by FORM editor Stephen Bann), as well as a translation of 'The first years of Concrete Poetry' by Eugen Gomringer. This issue also includes: an essay by Lewis Shelley on the avant-garde Black Mountain College (the first in a series); an essay by Joseph Albers entitles 'My courses at the Hochschule fur Gestaltung at Ulm', and an essay on 'Albers' 'Graphic Tectonics' by Irving Finkelstein'; 'What is Kinetism?' by Lev Nusberg - translated from his manifesto; 'Symmetry: Nature and the Plane' and 'A Non-Aristotelian Creative Reality' by Charles Biederman; poetry by Anselm Hollo, and a section on 'Great Little Magazines', with this particular issue focused on 'Mecano', which was edited by Theo von Doesburg. Reprinted from 'Mecano' here is 'Two Men' by Kurt Schwitters, 'Towards a Constructive Poetry' by I.K. Bonset (aka Theo von Doesburg) and 'Manifesto on the Lawfulness of Sound' by Raoul Hausman (translated by Richard Taylor'. Ref: Allen, Artist's Magazines, MIT Press, 2011. p. 261 Condition: crease to front cover as seen, minor toning to covers, internally near fine. Overall very good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Superb copy of a well done and thorough magazine on kinetic art and concrete poetry. One page dog-eared else excellent with slightest handling and shelfwear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. pink cloth, dust jacket, unpaginated, glassine put on dj, top edge pink Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Paperback. Condition: Very good+. Book. 229 x 61 mm, stapled, b&w printed wraps. Special issue of Finlay's POTH, focused on the Brighton Concrete Poetry Festival (1967), featuring: Claus Bremer; Eugen Gomringer; Ian Hamilton Finlay; Hansjorg Mayer; John Furnival; Stephen Bann; Edwin Morgan; Kenelm Cox. Photographs by Graham Keen, designed by Alistair Cant. Condition: some handling marks; no tears or writing. Overall: Very good+.

Paperback. Condition: Near fine. Book. 265 x 210 mm, 64 pp. in printed stapled wraps. Front cover image ('Portrait of Andree Dantu by Richard Hardwick: three phases of a Dantu polaroid light mobile') in colour, contents illustrated with both colour and b/w images. Three issues of Image (usually a 'careers' magazine for young graduates) were effectively taken over by important Cambridge academics of the day, all with a specific interest in concrete poetry and kinetic art: Philip Steadman, Stephen Bann and Reg Gadney. The issues of Image dedicated to kinetic and concrete poetry were particularly noteworthy for their commitment to translation and reprinting 'lost' texts, an imaginative use of layout and photography, and enlightening academic essays on their given subjects. This particular issue is entirely dedicated to kinetic art and concrete poetry (as the title suggests), and the editorial (which is idiosyncratically placed in the middle of the publication) reads: 'This issue of IMAGE is largely devoted to Kinetic Art: art, that is, incorporating real movement as opposed to the painted or static illusion of movement.' It is illustrated with a photograph of the editors and contributors - Stephen Bann, Reg Gadney, Frank Popper, Phil Steadman and Citroen - strolling through Paris. The issue features an essay by the concrete poetry specialist Stephen Bann, entitled 'Communication and Structure in Concrete Poetry', which comes with a reprinted letter from Ian Hamilton Finlay to Pierre Garnier, dated September 17th 1963. Translated by Bann are extracts from 'Manifesto for a new poetry, visual and phonic' by the concrete poet Pierre Garnier: 'The word is an element. / The word is a material. / The word is an object.' Also included in this section is a manifesto by Eugen Gomringer, entitled 'from line to consideration', and translated by Mike Weaver. It was 'first printed in augenblick no 2 agis verlag baden-baden 1954'. Works by Augusto de Campos, Ronaldo Azeredo, Decio Pignatari and Haraldo de Campos are also reprinted here. The second academic essay featured is a text by Mike Weaver entitled 'Concrete and Kinetic: the poem as Functional Object', which is illustrated with reproduced typestracts by Dom Sylvester Houedard. Also featured is a text by the editor Philip Steadman, entitled 'Colour Music and the Art of Lumia, and an essay by Reg Gadney entitled 'An Introduction: Kinetic Art', which is illustrated with images of works by Alexander Calder and Alexander Schoffer's Chronus sculptures. There are artist profiles of Frank Malina (by Reg Gadney); Gregoria Vardanega (by Stephen Bann); Martha Boto (by R.G); J-M. Cruxent (by S.B); Andree Dantu (by R.G); Knud Hvidberg and William Soya (by R.G); Nino Calos (by R.G). Condition: near fine (contents fine minor rubbing to covers).

First edition. Saddle-stapled large 8vo in cream-colored self-wrappers printed in red throughout. Unpaginated [8 pp.] To which is added a plate of the same size as the book printed in black on recto. Issue no. 10 of Poor Old Tired Horse (P.O.T.H.) featuring a selection of concrete poems by Robert Lax, Eugen Gomringer, Anselm Hollo, Augusto de Campos, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Dom Sylvester Houédard, and Edwin Morgan. Inserted plate features a drawing by Robert Frame. Age toning, faint rubbing, and darkening along extremities, including a few small stains at upper rear cover which have penetrated the last four pages. Very good.

First edition. Saddle-stapled softcover 8vo in publisher's wrappers printed in red and black on red paper, with pages printed in black on newsprint. Unpaginated (32 pp.) Text in German. Second of eleven issues in the 'konkrete poesie = poesia concreta' series, widely regarded as one of the earliest European publications on the topic of concrete poetry. This issue featuring a collection of texts without commas by Helmut Heissenbüttel. Includes trade advertisements on the last five pages. Series edited and published by Eugen Gomringer, a founding member of concrete poetry, and consisted of eleven issues in total. With most issues devoted to individual concrete poets, and one issue devoted to a group of concrete poets. Gomringer's press was one of the first to connect this international movement between Europe, South America, and the rest of the world. Very good with partial sunning along left spine, the common age toning to pages and text block extremities on account of the inferior paper quality, and bump to crown affecting both cover and pages.

Softcover. Condition: Near fine condition. First edition. "Für mausi mit allen guten wünschen Max Bill am jahresende 1958" on front free endpaper. Octavo. 84pp. Original cream wraps with black lettering on cover and spine, in original glassine dustwrapper. Publication in appreciation of the Swiss architect, artist, painter, typographer and designer Max Bill. Contributions by Max Bense (Arguments for Max Bill), Will Grohmann (Tendency towards Synthesis), Richard P. Lohse (Unity of the Design Principle), Kurt Marti (The Second Commandment and Concrete Art), Annie Müller-Widmann (Dear Max Bill), Carlos Flexa Ribeiro (The Fiftieth; in French), Ernesto N. Rogers (The Unit of Max Bill; Italian), Ernst Scheidegger (Visual Report 19441958 on Max Bill) and Eugen Gomringer (Max Bill and Concrete Poetry). Illustrated with eight b/w photographs of Max Bill in professional and personal situations. Contains biographical data from 1928 to 1958 on Max Bill and short biographical sketches of the contributors at rear. Texts in German, one each in French and Italian.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. 1st Edition. Paul de Vree, Poezie in Fusie, De Bladen Voor de Poezie, Lier, Belgium, 1968. 304 x 208mm, 128pp. Printed black on white stock. Printed by Sanderus in Oudenaarde, commissioned by de Bladen Voor de Poezie. Cover design by Walter Pluym. Introduction by Paul de Vree who edited this International Concrete Poetry Anthology. Illustrations of work by the editor together with Pierre Albert-Birot,Alain Arias-Mission, Ronaldo Azerido, Stephen Bann, Max Bense, Julien Blaine, J.F.Bory, Edgar Braga, Augusto de Campos, Haroldo de Campos, Ugo Carrega, Henri Chopin, Hans Clavin, Bob Cobbing, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Ian Hamilton Finlay, john Furnival, Heinz Gappmayr, Hochen Gerz,Mathias Goeritz, Eugen Gomringer, B.Grogerova, J.Hirsal, Jose Lino Grunwald, Brion Gysin, Dom Sylvester Houedard, ernst Jandl, Jiri Kolar, F.Kriwet, A.Lora-Titino, Hansjorg Mayer, Franz Mon, M.Nannucci, D.Pignatari, Diter Rot, Gerhard Ruhm, John Sharkey, Mary Ellen Solt, Adriano Spatola, Timm Ulrichs, Jiri Valoch, Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Herman de Vries, Ivo Vroom, Emmett Williams, Pedro Xisto et al. Text in Flemish. Condition: slight toning throughout, general wear to hard cover on edges and corners, Very Good +.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Book. 209 x 147 mm, unpaginated, orange stapled wraps with red and black text. Contents printed b&w on cream stock. Issue 7of the groundbreaking concrete poetry publication, the first of its kind in Europe. Gomringer was one of founders of the concrete poetry movement. In 1955 he had been working as Max Bill's secretary at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm when he met the Brazilian poet Decio Pignatari. The meeting put Gomringer in touch with the Noigandres poets, whose techniques and aims were similar to his, and led to the agreement that the work in this new field on both sides oFerreiro Gullarf the Atlantic should be identified as 'concrete poetry'. This issue is our favourite of all by the founder of Neo Concrete (and creator of the idea of the 'Non-object". Minimal text on cut pages (no other issue has cut pages) and a must for all collectors of blank books. Condition: even toning to pages , sun toning to spine.No writing or tears. Overall Very Good + Near fine.

Softcover. Condition: gut. Würth : Eine Sammlung 1-3 : - / Abstrakte Tendenzen / Figurative Tendenzen In deutscher Sprache. pages.

Condition: Very good +. Barnstone, Willis, ed, Artes Hispanicas / Hispanic Arts: Volume 1 Number 3 & 4, The Macmillan Company for Indiana University Press, Richmond, 1968. 254 x 216mm. 312pp with some colour illustrations and foldout. Cover by Augusto de Campos. An important survey of concrete poetry featuring Mary Ellen Solt's essay titled 'A World Look at Concrete Poetry' from pp. 7-66. Final section entitled 'English Spanish Word Gloss and Comments' gives short biographies of the poets and translations, as needed, of texts in their illustrated works. Heavy item, extra postage required. Condition: some wear and marks to cover and minor rubbing, slight ding to top right corner which faintly affects the first 125 pages, but overall a fresh clean copy. VG+.