Design & Style 6 — Surrealism [Steven Heller, Seymour Chwast]

Design & Style 6: Surrealism, Mohawk Paper Mills and The Pushpin Group, USA, 1989. 10.25 x 12, pp. 28. Edited by Steven Heller. Designed by Seymour Chwast and Roxanne Slimak.

This is the 6th issue dedicated to the Surrealist movement; a term coined in 1917 by Guillaume Apolliniare and later codified in a 1924 manifesto by the French writer André Breton. Profusely illustrated with images and text throughout; starting with early Surrealist imagery including: René Magritte, J. J. Grandville, Giorgio de Chirico, Man Ray, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Jean Cocteau and many others throughout the decades into the 1980s. This issue includes a performative, mix and match die cut to make your own Surrealist painting. Paper production notes and a timeline laid-in with a selected Bibliography at the end.

Design & Style was a biannual journal of resource and inspiration dedicated to twentieth century art and design movements. It presented historic design and typography movements and their influence on contemporary graphic design with issues devoted to: Jugendstil, Streamline, Art Deco, Futurism, De Stijl, Surrealism, and Bauhaus. Each issue was lavishly printed with a variety of Mohawk Papers using various printing and production techniques such as: die cutting, interesting folds, tipped-in plates and inserts, pop-ups and more.

A very good perfect-bound softcover book in stiff French-folded wrappers with light wear at the corners. Without its' publishers envelope.