{"product_id":"wladyslaw-strezminski-1","title":"Wladyslaw STREZMIŃSKI","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';\"\u003eZ Ponad\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Condensed'; color: black; background: white;\"\u003ePoezje\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';\"\u003e. [\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eFrom Beyond, Poems\u003c\/i\u003e] By \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Condensed'; color: black; background: white;\"\u003eJulian Przybós. \u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e30 pp.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e4to., 216 x 190, bound in publisher’s wrappers with a typographic design by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial-ItalicMT; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003eStrezmińki\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Condensed'; color: black; background: white;\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Condensed','sans-serif'; color: black; background: white;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Condensed'; color: black; background: white;\"\u003ePoland: Bibljoteki “a.r.,” 1930.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Condensed'; color: black; background: white;\"\u003eAn exceedingly rare masterpiece of Polish Constructivism designed by one of its champions, Wladyslwaw Strezmiński (1893-1952).\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eThe cover is one of Strezmiński’s finest examples with its colourful, playful typographic design.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eFor Przybós poem, Strezmiński ‘attempted to make type “recite” poetry on the page’ (\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eThe Avant-Garde Applied\u003c\/i\u003e, p. 36), as he plays with various fonts and words oriented vertically or horizontally interdispersed with similarly oriented thick black lines.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Condensed'; color: black; background: white;\"\u003e‘The a.r. Group—standing for \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Condensed';\"\u003eartyści rewolucyjni \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e(revolutionary artists) or \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Condensed';\"\u003eawangarda rzeczywista \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e(real avant-garde)—was founded in 1929 by artists (Katarzyna Kobro, Henryk Stażewski, Strzemiński) and poets (Jan Brzękowski and Julian Przyboś) formerly belonging to the Blok and Praesens groups. This book, a radical visual-textual collaboration, was the first volume of the Bibljoteki “a.r.” (a.r. Library), the group’s publication program.’ (From The Merill C. Berman Collection, mcbcollection.com, ‘Two Iconic Books of the Polish Avant-Garde’.)\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Condensed'; color: black; background: white;\"\u003eFrom an approximate edition of 400 copies.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eOCLC finds just one copy in the US at the University of Wisconsin and Rare Book Hub fails to find a copy at auction.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eSome minor professional repairs to the extremities of the cover, else a near fine copy of this fragile work.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Condensed'; color: black; background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eAndel, 203-205.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eThe Avant-Garde Applied\u003c\/i\u003e, p. 36, 230\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Calab Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51344660758849,"sku":null,"price":57500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0680\/3547\/7825\/files\/web_96973728-1194-4342-9903-bba6d5981d4c.jpg?v=1769799039","url":"https:\/\/www.calabrarebooks.com\/products\/wladyslaw-strezminski-1","provider":"Calab Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}