Herbert Bayer: The Complete Work, Arthur A. Cohen, MIT Press, 1984, Fine w/DJ

Cohen, Arthur A. Herbert Bayer: The Complete Work (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1984).

English, Fine book in a Fine dust jacket, HC, 4to, 12" x 9 3/4," 429 pp., including illustrations, Appendices, Notes, Bibliography, and Index.

ISBN: 0262022060

White cloth-covered boards in a white paper dust jacket. Red-orange lettering on front panel and dust jacket spine. Covers have light age toning and slight wear to extremities, else pristine and intact, binding tight, sharp tips. Dust jacket has light age toning and slight wear to extremities, else pristine and intact. Dust jacket protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. Pages pristine and intact. Replete with illustrations in black-and-white and color. Includes 43 color illustrations and 350 black-and-white illustrations. A comprehensive monograph featuring the life and complete works of Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), an Austrian-American artist and one of the original members of the Bauhaus. Bayer was a Renaissance man of the fine and applied arts whose work spanned the disciplines of painting, sculpture, architecture, environmental art, graphic design, typography, lithography, photography, tapestry, industrial design, and exhibition design. After studying at the Bauhaus for four years, Walter Gropius appointed Bayer as the director of printing and advertising at the Bauhaus. This book includes all 32 of Bayer's essays, numerous plates of Bayer's artworks, and texts by Arthur A. Cohen. The book is organized as follows: "Painting: 1919-1982," "Sculpture and Environments: 1937-1983", "Graphic Design: 1918-1983", "Photography: 1925-1938", "Exhibition Design and Architectural Design: 1928-1968", and "Selected Writings by Herbert Bayer".