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Two crucial works of New Typography, the avant-garde movement that revolutionised graphic design in the interwar period. The increasing availability of the photographic image played a fundamental role in this new approach to editorial design. Moholy-Nagy, a member of the legendary Bauhaus, and Jan Tschichold, author of the landmark work Die neue Typographie, radically changed the face of the printed page, producing a lasting impact whose effects continue to this day.
Modernism and Postmodernism are the driving forces that have shaped 20th century architecture, art and design.
The Modern Movement began at the end of the 19th century, ran vigorously through the century and began to be questioned at the beginning of the 1960s, before finally fading away in the 1990s with the advent of the Internet and the paradigm shift it brought with it.
The book has been the medium and the message of the diverse movements in the arts during the last century. The book, with its emphatic material presence, takes on a special value now that we are witnessing its dematerialization, reduced to digital data in electronic format.
Over the Bookworm sessions we will explore several iconic books that capture the spirit of the era in which they were designed. We will place the books in their context and try to define what makes them relevant in the history of 20th century book design. The Bookworm sessions are guided by Andreu Jansà, librarian and curator of the Enric Bricall Reserve Fund. The books that make up the collection are documented in the main accounts of the history of 20th century graphic design.
László Moholy-Nagy. Malerei, Fotografie, Film. München: Albert Langen, 1925
Jan Tschichold. Foto-Auge. Stuttgart: Akademischer Verlag Dr. Fritz Wedekind, 1929
