(8) individual issues of the Denver Art Museum Quarterly, 1959—1966. Denver Art Museum, written and edited (and sometimes designed) by Cile M. Bach (and others), the longtime director of Denver Art Museum’s publication department.
Each stapled softcover is 8.5 x 11 (the Structure issue is a bit smaller) with between 20-36 pages and heavily illustrated in black and white. Issues are dedicated to a single subject and part of a series of exhibitions developed by the Living Arts Center that explored the visual world or “Language in Vision”; in some cases they act as catalogs for exhibits held at the museum.
Impressive subject matter ... well researched and written; convincing. Some issues include Museum Information, Contributors, Acknowledgments, References and Credits. A varied selection of works by but not limited to: Félix Candela, Andreas Feininger, Ezra Stoller, Pier Luigi Nervi, Buckminster Fuller, Eero Saarinen, Harold E. Edgerton, Marcel Duchamp, Charles Eames, Pablo Picasso, Herbert Bayer, Gyorgy Kepes, Moholy-Nagy, Theo van Doesburg, and more. This group includes (8) individual issues:
- Structure, Fall 1959: Man-Made Structures, Parallels in Nature, Numbers and Proportions, Post and Lintel Construction, Warped Plane Construction, etc.
- Shape and Form, Fall 1960: Seeing Things, Shape and Symbolism, The Form of a Cup, In Transportation, In Language and Writing, etc.
- Space, Autumn Quarterly 1961: Outer Space, From Eye to Horizon, Spaces for Living, Space Within a Frame, Atomic Space, Measurements of Space, etc.
- Light, Fall 1962: The Eye and Vision, Light in Nature, Artificial Light, Light in Art—Television, Responses to Light, etc.
- Style and Taste, Fall 1963: In history, the mark of style appears in all artifacts, buildings, paintings, sculpture, even the written word.
- Materials and Techniques, Fall 1964: Stone, Wood, Tempera, Watercolor, Weaving, Drawing, Relief Processes, Lithograph, etc.
- Point and Line, Fall 1965: Types of Line, Sources of Line, Line to Produce Space and Form, Line and Proportion, Line to Produce Motion, Emotional Impact of Line, etc.
- Language of Vision, Winter 1966: This issue is an updated synthesis of previous presentations, with a sharpened focus on each element; part of everything we see and fundamental tools of the artist.
A very good collection with moderate wear to the mostly glossy front and back covers. A hint of handling throughout with light toning to the edges and a few softly bent corners. An impressive introduction to language in vision; hard to find as a group.