Anton Stankowski art book (discounted)

Anton Stankowski art book, edited by Ulrike Gauss / bilingual German and English text / ISBN 9783775717434 / 405-page hardback, 9.75 x 12.6 inches (it's big!), published by Hatje Cantz / discounted copies but like new *** Anton Stankowski began his most serious work in the late 1920s, as a contemporary of the Zurich "Konkretes" who were also influenced by the Bauhaus. He was a decorative painter and printmaker, as well as the creator of masterly, abstract photographs, clever advertising graphics and remarkable logos--outstanding examples of visualization in the applied arts. Over the postwar years, he developed well-known logos for SEL, the Suddeutsche Rundfunk and Deutsche Bank, and a teaching concept for design in Bildplâne. In celebration of Stankowski's centennial birthday, and in demonstration of his accidentally defining remark that "you can create a system for yourself, but you will only become good when you break out of it," this monograph presents the entire spectrum of his su