Max Bill's View of Things
Max Bill's View of Things
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Max Bill's View of Things by Claude Lichtenstein
The special exhibition Die gute Form, put on by the Swiss Werkbund (SWB) at the Basel trade fair in 1949, was an event that caused a furor far beyond Switzerland's borders. The renowned architect, designer, and graphic artist Max Bill was the mastermind behind the idea and personally selected the exhibits and designed their setting. Eighty exhibition panels showed consumer objects of exemplary design, from a teacup to the jet plane. Bill recognized the emerging, American-style com- modity aesthetic that was making inroads into Switzerland and postwar Europe and sought to confront it with a specifically "Swiss" aesthetic shaped by a desire to create long-lasting forms. This publication documents Bill's initiative by presenting the original exhibition panels and Ernst Scheidegger's photographs of the installation, places this famous design show in a theoretical and design-historical context, examines its background, and creates a link to the publishing house's first publication from 1983.
Claude Lichtenstein, born 1949, is a curator, lecturer, and author. 1985 - 2002 he was a curator at Museum fur Gestaltung Zurich. Since 2002, he has been working as an independent exhibition curator.
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| ISBN 13 | 9783037783726 |
| ISBN 10 | 3037783729 |
| Title | Max Bill's View of Things |
| Author | Claude Lichtenstein |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Lars Muller Publishers |
| Year published | 2013-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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