An ongoing online project of Casey Smith's MA seminar, "The History of the Western Book," at the Corcoran College of Art + Design in Washington DC, focusing on information, discussion, and debate about the history (and future) of scripted forms, especially the printed forms of the past five hundred years commonly referred to as books.
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Russian Avant-Garde Books
While English and American printers and book designers were held in thrall to the aesthetics of the English Arts and Crafts Movement (essentially looking back), Russians and other Europeans were looking forward in radical ways.
MoMA 2002 Exhibit: The Russian Avant-Garde Book
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