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[Bolt Book] Depero, Fortunato (1892-1960): Depero the Futurist. Milan, Italian Edition Dinamo Azari, New York – Paris – Berlin, 1927.
Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies, this is copy no. 923. With a large green autograph signature by Fortunato Depero on the verso of the frontispiece, under a dedication with another autograph signature by Depero dated 1935-XIII. Oblong, cm. 24.5x32. Editorial cardboard, with two metal bolts held together by cotter pins. Cover and graphics by the Author. 234 unnumbered pages + 4 sheets of tissue paper + 2 flyleaves. Some sheets are in colored cardboard, many line drawings and sketches, some two-tone; one folded plate; 44 photographic reproductions, 2 of which in color. Splendid copy, in excellent condition.
"A masterpiece of the application of "paroliberista" typographic "deformation" (Futurism & Futurisms). "Polychrome, free and bold, the bolted book, so called from the idea of its editor Fedele Azari to bolt the cover, is the manifesto of the machine age and of their influence on the Futurist movement". Salaris, Bibliography of Futurism, 35; Andel, Avant-Garde Page Design, 112: “The glorification of the machine and technology also inspires the futurists when they refer to industrial materials […] which give a tactile sense of the characteristics of impressionism”; Jentsch, The Artist and the Book in Twentieth-Century Italy, 177: “One of the avant-garde masterpieces in the history of the book-object”.
€ 22.000,00 / 28.000,00
Estimate
€ 20.000,00
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Unsold
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