Aesthetic Meditations

Examples from robert motherwell/george wittenborn’s documents of modern art (1944-1972),
covers and typography by paul rand.

titles include:
guillaume apollinaire:
the cubist
painters
(1944)
piet mondrain: plastic art and pure plastic art
(1945)
lászló
moholy-nagy
: the
new vision
(1946)
louis henry sullivan: kindergarten chats
(1947)
wassily
kandinsky
: concerning the spiritual in art
(1947)
jean
arp
: on my
way
(1948)
max
ernst
: beyond
painting
(1948)
robert motherwell: the dada painters and poets: an anthology
(1951)
david-henri
kahnweiler
: the
rise of cubism
(1949)
marcel raymond: from baudelaire to surrealism (1949)
georges duthuit: the fauvist painters
(1950)
carola
gideon-welcker
: contemporary sculpture (1955)
marcel duchamp: the bride stripped bare by her
bachelors, even
(1960)
paul klee: the thinking eye + the nature of
nature

k.
malevich
: essays
on art
(1971)

motherwell/wittenborn also published another series: problems of contemporary
art
(1945-1954).  motherwell edited the documents of
twentieth-century art
 with viking press (1971-1993).
46 titles
(47 volumes) total

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