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Cohen, Arthur A.. EX LIBRIS CATALOG: BAUHAUS. New York: Ex Libris, 1981. First Edition. Tall Narrow 8vo. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Bookseller's Catalogue. Fine. np (22pp), 22 b&w illustrations. New York's Arthur Cohen was the premier purveyor of books and ephemera on twentieth century Modern Art movements for nearly twenty years. Ex Libris' copiously researched, scholarly, illustrated catalogues stood as unparalleled bibliographic tools at a time when there was a paucity of available reference to the documentary literature of the modernist avant-gardes. This slender twenty-two page hors sequence publication describes eighty-nine examples of Bauhaus related illustrated books, photographs, exhibition catalogues, periodicals, documentary literature, posters, pamphlets, and printed ephemera on or by the likes of Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, Aenne Biermann, Walter Dexel, Lux Feininger, Walter Gropius, Johannes Itten, Ernst Kallai, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Kasimir Malewitsch, Hannes Meyer, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Lucia Moholy, Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, J.J.P. Oud, Xanti Schawinsky, Oskar Schlemmer, Joost Schmidt, Jan Tschichold, Theo Van Doesberg, and many, many others. And while at the time of its 1981 publication the prices here seemed astronomical, some twenty-five years later they are finally downright bargains! A most handsome copy of this uncommon reference. Inventory Number: 017442
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