Language: English
Published by The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2011
ISBN 10: 0300166095 ISBN 13: 9780300166095
Hardcover. Neon orange cloth-covered boards with bw lettering. 3/4 color-illustrated dj. 158 pp. with numerous color and bw graphics. Exhibition catalogue. Covers the art of John Heartfield, Gustav Klutsis, El Lissitzky, Ladislav Sutnar, Karel Teige and Piet Zwart. With an introductory essay and exhibiton checklist. Highlights the work of influential European artists who demanded that art go beyond the intellectual and transform daily life and merged it with demands in the industrial marketplace, the nascent mass media and urban popular culture. (paraphrased from the book jacket). NF but with lib. sticker on lower spine.