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 influ