A Subversive Gleam: Max Bill and His Time: 1908–1939

Thomas, Angela

ISBN 10: 3906915409 / ISBN 13: 9783906915401

Verlag: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, Switzerland, 2022

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: A Subversive Gleam: Max Bill and His Time: 1908?1939
• Verlag: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, Switzerland
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3906915409
• ISBN-13: 9783906915401
• Einband: Soft cover
• Zustand: As New

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Inhaltsangabe

The first installment of art historian Dr. Angela Thomas' multi-volume biography of her husband Max Bill, providing a highly unconventional and intimate account of the Swiss polymath's life, work, and thinking.

Max Bill (1908–1994) was a Swiss polymath bridging the worlds of art, design, and architecture. Dr. Angela Thomas, art historian and widow of the artist, retraces Max Bill’s biography, from his childhood to his training at the Bauhaus, his return to Zurich, and on until the late 1930s. She meticulously dissects Max Bill’s journey through his exchanges with his family, teachers, and peers–and their individual respective life trajectories. In a highly unconventional meander through extraordinary biographies, she thus exposes the web-like private and public constellations in which Bill evolved.

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Max Bill was a Swiss polymath bridging the worlds of design, architecture, art, publishing, advertising, and politics. This first part of an comprehensive monograph retraces Bill’s biography from his childhood to his Bauhaus training, his return to Zurich, and on until the late 1930s. The reader discovers a young Bill characterized by commitment, clarity in thinking, a highly critical mind, and a growing network of artists. Part biography, part eulogy, part memoir, this publication proposes insights into the pre-World War II cultural milieu of a European community of artists, designers, and architects.