Product Description
Important early modernist design text by Sir Herbert Read, issued at the height of the interwar industrial-design movement and strongly associated with Bauhaus-era aesthetics and functionalist theory.
Read examines the relationship between industrial production and artistic form through discussions of architecture, typography, furniture, textiles, metalwork, ornament, and machine-age aesthetics.
Illustrated throughout with period photographic plates and examples of modernist industrial and architectural design, including work associated with Alvar Aalto, Mies van der Rohe, Wedgwood, and contemporary European design movements.
Particularly notable is the Herbert Bayer typographic design, which gives the volume strong visual appeal to collectors of Bauhaus and modernist graphic design material.
Book condition: Very Good.
Black cloth boards remain structurally sound and clean overall, with moderate rubbing, edgewear, and minor bumping/fraying at corners and spine ends; small cloth loss at lower spine edge.
Interior remains clean and bright with no markings to text.
Binding solid.
Yellow endpapers fresh with a neat ex-libris ownership inscription on front pastedown/endpaper ('Personal Property of Priscilla H.
Nye,' partially legible).
No dust jacket present.
A well-preserved and highly usable example of a scarce and influential 1930s design title frequently encountered in lesser condition.
Edition/printing determination: first American edition, first printing, 1935, with no later printings stated and original Harcourt, Brace imprint.
Typography and cover credited to Herbert Bayer, an important Bauhaus designer and typographer associated with the New Bauhaus and modernist graphic design movement.
Sir Herbert Read (1893-1968) was one of Britain's most influential art critics, poets, and theorists of modern art and design.
Closely connected with international modernism, Read championed abstraction, functionalism, and the integration of art into industrial society.
His writings on aesthetics, education, and design profoundly shaped mid-20th-century discussions of architecture, industrial design, and modern visual culture.
![[First Edition] ART AND INDUSTRY 1935 1st HC Bauhaus Modern Design Herbert Read [Used - Very good] [Hardcover]](https://r.kelkoo.com/resize.php?country=ca&merchantId=100567270&categoryId=5101&trackingId=96985762&width=auto&height=auto&image=https%3A%2F%2Fpictures.abebooks.com%2Finventory%2F32445851955.jpg&sign=40Y366TfyloCEm6CaeoXznT7cQJSLdmaIRkr4hu6Wwc-)
