Le Corbusier
Unité, 1965
4291-BK
Contains 20 aquatint etchings on Rives wove paper produced between 1963 and 1965.
Printed by Crommelynck, Paris, and published by Alain C. Mazo, Paris.
The "Unité" etchings celebrate organic arrangements in compositions that simply and masterfully blend color, line, and form. One of the artist’s central graphic works, the aquatints showcase his belief that “color is an immediate and spontaneous expression of life.” These images incorporate his notions regarding still life stemming from the Purism movement, as well as depictions of women.
15 signed color plates: nos. 1, 3-11, 14-16, and 18-20. One unsigned color plate no. 2, and four B/W plates, unsigned.
Edition of 130.
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Le Corbusier
Le Modulor, 1951
352
A Harmonious Measure to the Human Scale Universally applicable to Architecture and Mechanics. Second edition in fair condition.
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Le Corbusier
Aircraft, 1935
3484-BK
9 7/8 x 7 5/8 in. (25.2 x 19.4 cm)
92 pages, 16 of text with 124 illustrations, most being photographs and some are reproduced drawings.
Published by The Studio, London.
Aircraft celebrates flight and casts the airplane as the pinnacle of modern technological achievement. The book captures the enthusiasm and ideas surrounding the aerial age. Le Corbusier opens the book by emphasizing the “ecstatic feeling” that flight produces in him. It is “symbol of the New Age”, promising adventure, progress and wild possibility. He idealizes the aesthetics of the machines, too, which possess “clearness of function” (a core principle that underpinned Le Corbusier’s utopian architectural schemes). Le Corbusier’s captions are typically bold and uncompromising. The text that accompanies image 9, for example, reads: “The bird’s eye view … man will make use of it to conceive new aims. Cities will arise out of their ashes.”
Reference: Fotografia Publica 132, p.81; Le Corbusier et le livre, p.122
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Le Corbusier
Vers Une Architecture, 1928
351
HIs first book which changed the way people thought of Archtecture! '"There is a new spirit: it is a spirit of construction and sythesis guided by a clear conception." First edition was 1924 and this is the third edition.
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