Unit Modern Movement English Architecture by Read Herbert (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. 124pp with 67 b/w plates. Yellow cloth board with brown lettering in good condition. No dust-jacket. Unit One was founded in 1933 by Paul Nash with other artists including Edward Burra, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson and Edward Wadsworth. 0.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. London, Cassell and Company Ltd, edited by Herbert Read, 1934. Volume grand in-8, reliure pleine toile jaune de l éditeur estampée en brun, 126 pages, 67 illustrations en noir. Édition originale. Seule publication du groupe Unit one, formé d'artistes et d'architectes anglais. Contributions de Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, John Armstrong, John Bigge, Edward Burra, Tristram Hillier, Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson, Edward Wafsworth, Wells Coates, Colin Lucas, Herbert Read et Douglas Cooper. Superbes illustrations tirées en héliogravure. Bel exemplaire auquel il manque cependant la jaquette.

HARDBACK YELLOW. Condition: Fair. 1ST ED. General wear, all artists Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, John Armstrong, John Bigge, Edward Burra, Tristram Hillier, Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson, Edward Wadsworth, Wells Coates, Colin Lucas. Contains BW photographs, spine cover missing, hinges slightly loose, soiling on cover with board being bent, soiling in endpapers DATE PUBLISHED: 1934 EDITION: 1ST ED 124.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First. Plain brown d/jkt, unclipped, in clear film; intact, but frail; occasional minor chipping to edges, but no losses otherwise. Lettering on spine faded. Yellow cloth boards; very light wear; generally clean; corners sharp. Large brown "1" decoration on front slightly rubbed, brown titling otherwise unworn (see pics). Binding tight. Chapters by Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, John Armstrong, John Bigge, Edward Burra, Tristram Hillier, Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson, Edward Wadsworth, Wells Coats and Colin Lucas. B/w plates. Laid-in flyer for Unit One exhibition May-Jun 1984. ; 4to (7 1/2" x 10"); 124 pages.

4to. (254 x 190 mm). pp. 124. Illustrated with 67 monochrome plates. Original publisher's yellow cloth with title to upper cover, original grey dust-jacket with titles to front panel in red. The sole publication of the English artists and architects who formed Unit One. Unit One consisted of the sculptors Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, the painters John Armstrong, John Bigge, Edward Burra, Tristram Hillier, Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson and Edward Wadsworth and the architects Wells Coates and Colin Lucas. Unit One opposed the English romantic tradition of working 'by the light of nature' and advocated a strong 'structural purpose' in both painting and architecture. 'Unit One is the name of a new group of English artists - painters, sculptors and architects - which was formed early in the year 1933. It is not a group of new artists: most of the eleven constituent members already have established reputations. Nor does it stand for any new principle in art. It arose almost spontaneously among a few artists well-known to each other, out of a consciousness of their mutual sympathies and common necessities.' (Herbert Read writing in the Introduction).

First edition. Small quarto. 124 pages, 67 of which are devoted to the illustrations. This important and scarce anthology focuses on the work of the group collectively known as UNIT ONE, formed early in 1933, and whose members were Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, John Armstrong, John Bigge, Edward Burra, Tristram Hillier, Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson, Edward Wadsworth, Wells Coates and Colin Lucas. The book, in effect, serves as a manifesto for their aims. The separate prose contributions by each of the artists (except Burra who is represented by a note on his work by Douglas Cooper) are artistic credos.Contemporary (1936) ownership signature on front free endpaper. Endpapers very slightly spotted. Very good in very good, slightly rubbed, price-clipped dustwrapper faded at the spine and with a couple of small chips.

First edition. 4to. 247x184mm. pp124, [2]. Sixty-seven black and white plates. Yellow cloth, illustrated and lettered in brown. Original grey dust-jacket lettered in red. Head and foot of spine of jacket chipped, some small tears to top edge. Rubbing and slight fading to spine. Otherwise a very good copy and internally in excellent condition. Unit One was founded in 1933 by Paul Nash in a letter to The Times in which he wrote that the group was "to stand for the expression of a truly contemporary spirit, for that thing which is recognised as peculiarly of today in painting, sculpture and architecture". The other artists in the Unit were John Armstrong, John Bigge, Edward Burra, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson, Edward Wadsworth. They held only one exhibition, in 1934, which was accompanied by this book. With its introduction by Herbert Read and its extensive illustrations, the book remains an important statement of British Modernism in art.

First edition, first impression. Contributors include Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, John Armstrong, John Bigge, Edward Burra by Douglas Cooper, Tristram Hiller, Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson, Edward Wadsworth, Wells Coates and Colin Lucas. Unit 1 (or Unit One) were an influential art group active from 1933-5; the present book was published to coincide with a group exhibition at the Mayor Gallery in London. Small quarto. 67 monochrome plates throughout. Original yellow cloth, lettering to front cover and spine in brown. With dust jacket. A very good copy in edge chipped and nicked dust jacket, text to spine faded, but still an acceptable copy in the scarce jacket.