RYPSON Peter
NO GOOSE. Polish Graphic Design 1919-1949
"A fascinating panorama of the staggeringly innovative and radical ideas of the lost world of Polish graphic design from 1919 to 1949. The author, an eminent art critic and historian, passionately recounts the emergence of the visual language of modernizing Poland, and in the process portrays the everyday life of the interesting, if sometimes ghastly, country that was the Second Polish Republic and Poland during the war and postwar years. More than a thousand unique illustrations, three hundred graphic artists, the only - literally! - such a collection.
No Geese is a meticulously recreated universe of designs: covers, posters, flyers, packaging (what were pre-war condoms wrapped in?), magazines, stamps; it's also an overview of all areas of social, economic and cultural life: from the work of leftist propagandists through advertisements for various industries ("Sugar fortifies"!) to surprising curiosities, like the photomontage on the cover of a volume of poetry by Polish fascists. Piotr Rypson's book is at once a clear guide to the main currents of design art and a document of the emerging modernity: the experiments of the Futurists, the achievements of functionalism and constructivism.
This book once and for all dispels the myth of the lack of a Polish graphic design tradition and proves that it is by no means limited to posters. Contemporary designers will find here inspiration and proof that surprising design solutions are born not only in the 21st century, critics and art historians will receive an exhaustive and competent source of knowledge, foreign audiences will discover previously unknown and somewhat exotic works, while all readers will find here an absorbing story, written in a lively language, about the forgotten, but colorful and diverse everyday life of Poland over the turbulent thirty years.
Piotr Rypson - born in 1956 in Warsaw, art critic, art and literature historian, publicist, specialist in electronic education. Studied Mediterranean archaeology at Warsaw University. Editor-in-chief of the art magazine "Obieg" in 1990-94. Chief Curator of Collections and Galleries at the Center for Contemporary Art at Ujazdowski Castle (1993-1996). Guest lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, USA (1993-99). Author of six books - including Pyramids, Suns, Labyrinths (2002), Books and Pages. Polish avant-garde and art books in the 20th century (2000) and numerous articles, essays and reviews printed in Poland and abroad. He collaborates with the magazine 'Piktogram'."
Source: Publisher
Krakow 2017, Karakter, pp. 408, format 16x24 cm;
SOFTCOVER
BDB- condition.
