Max Bill
By: Manuel Fontán del Junco, María Toledo, eds. ; texts by Max Bill, Jakob Bill, Karin Gimmi, Manuel Fontán del Junco, Neus Moyano, Gillermo Zuaznabar, Fernando Marzá and María Amalia García
Contributors: Fontán del Junco, Manuel, 1963- editor, author; Toledo Gutiérrez, María, editor; Bill, Max, 1908-1994, author; Bill, Jakob, author; Gimmi, Karin, 1959- author; Moyano, Neus, author; Zuaznabar, Gillermo, 1971- author; Marzá, Fernando, author; García, María Amalia, 1975- author; Fundación Juan March
Publisher: Fundación Juan March; Editorial de Arte y Ciencia
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9788470756320
Subjects: Exhibitions
Work titles: Max Bill
Description: "A true Renaissance man with a clear, unified aesthetic vision, the Swiss artist, designer, architect and writer Max Bill combined the virtues of homo faber and homo ludens throughout his intensely productive career, launching the Concrete art movement and establishing himself as the single most decisive influence on postwar Swiss graphic design. This gorgeously designed, hefty volume--the most thorough Bill overview ever published in English, and the only monograph in print--presents Bill's oeuvre both chronologically and thematically, across every facet of his multifaceted oeuvre: painting, graphic art, sculpture, architecture, book and magazine design, industrial and furniture design, graphic design and advertising typography--from large-format posters to small inserts in periodicals--as well as his designs for exhibition spaces. Bill stands out for his enormous influence on Latin American geometric art (through his 1951 retrospective at the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art), as well as for his essays, his work as an educator and his political and social concerns. All these aspects of his life and work are covered in this profusely illustrated catalogue, along with essays by scholars and a selection of previously unpublished essays by Bill himself."--
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain, October 16, 2015-January 17, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-317).

English translation of Spanish original.
Table of contents: title: Max Bill :; title: the good forms of art (foreword)  -- Fundación Juan March; title: On Bill  -- Karin Gimmi; title: "Everything goes hand in hand" :; title: a conversation with Jakob Bill  -- Manuel Fontán del Junco; title: Max Bill at the Bauhaus  -- Jakob Bill; title: Max Bill and the HfG Ulm :; title: lines of division  -- Gillermo Zuaznabar and Neus Moyano -- Works on display; title: Perspectives on Max Bill's work in Spanish architecture  -- Fernando Marzá; title: Max Bill in Argentina and Brasil :; title: South American episodes in concrete art  -- María Amalia García; title: Max Bill :; title: biography  -- Jakob Bill; title: Max Bill :; title: an anthology (1936-1968)  -- eds. Neus Moyano, Gillermo Zuaznabar, Manuel Fontán del Junco, María Toledo and Mariola Gómez Laínez.; title: Preface ;; title: Editorial note ;; title: Texts by Max Bill.; title: Concrete art (1936-1949) ;; title: [Le Corbusier] (1938) ;; title: A few words on painting and sculpture (1947) ;; title: Beauty from function and as function (1949) ;; title: Artistic expression in construction [Robert Maillart] (1949) ;; title: Kandinsky, pedagogue and educator (1951) ;; title: From surface to space (1951) ;; title: At our school you can't become a painter (1951) ;; title: The Bauhaus idea from Wiemar to Ulm (1952) ;; title: A, b, c, d ... (1953) ;; title: Mondrian (1955) ;; title: The designed environment of the future (1964) ;; title: Well-being in a small state (1968) -- -- Works cited -- Max Bill bibliography.; title: Texts by Max Bill ;; title: Texts on Max Bill ---- List of works on display.