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TitleUrformen Der Kunst
AuthorBlossfeldt, Karl
Edition3-Rd. Edition
PublishedWasmuth Berlin 1935
DescriptionPhotografischen Pflanzenbilder von Professor Karl Blossfeldt . Herausgegeben mit einer einleitung von Karl Nierendorf. XVI-pp.96 pp. plates (full pp.) Original cloth, spine gone. binding designed by Lucian Zabel. Plates printed at the famous "Ganymed" presses, from Berlin. Blossfeldt sought through his close-up images of plant forms to establish a link between form in a natural world "governed by some fixed and eternal force" and in art. Urformen Der Kunst is the high point of his work. It was rapidly acclaimed in Germany and abroad and was soon published in France and the United States. (See Rosenbloom, 'World History of Photography'). A Twentieth Century Rarity, here in a somewhat mediocre condition. The first edition appeared in 1928. See: Blunt, pp. 261.
Book conditionFair
Jacket conditionNo Jacket
BindingDecorated Cloth
Book sizeLarge 4 To.
Price 250
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