UNIT ONE. The modern movement in English architecture painting and sculpture.
by READ, Herbert (Ed.)
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London.: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1934.. Original publisher's yellow cloth with title to upper cover, original grey dust-jacket with titles to front panel in red.. 4to. (254 x 190 mm).. Illustrated with 67 monochrome plates. The sole publication of the English artists and architects who formed Unit One.Unit One consisted of the sculptors Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, the painters John Armstrong, John Bigge, Edward Burra, Tristram Hillier, Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson and Edward Wadsworth and the architects Wells Coates and Colin Lucas. Unit One opposed the English romantic tradition of working 'by the light of nature' and advocated a strong 'structural purpose' in both painting and architecture.'Unit One is the name of a new group of English artists - painters, sculptors and architects - which was formed early in the year 1933. It is not a group of new artists: most of the eleven constituent members already have established reputations. Nor does it stand for any new principle in art. It arose almost spontaneously among a few artists well-known to each other, out of a consciousness of their mutual sympathies and common necessities.' (Herbert Read writing in the Introduction).
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- Bookseller
- Sims Reed Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45005
- Title
- UNIT ONE. The modern movement in English architecture painting and sculpture.
- Author
- READ, Herbert (Ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Original publisher's yellow cloth with title to upper cover, original grey dust-jacket with titles to front panel in red.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cassell and Company Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London.
- Date Published
- 1934.
- Pages
- pp. 124.
- Size
- 4to. (254 x 190 mm).
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