247 - 322 ISOTYPE and INFOGRAPHICS
= "Aangeboden aan de leerlingen van de middelbare scholen te Amsterdam, ter gelegenheid van het gouden jubileum van het Bedrijf der Gemeente Waterleidingen (...)" (title-p.). Jansen 68. Rare.
- Small tear; oblique fold; a few tiny brown stains.
= Rare; not in Bool/ Broos. Published on occasion of an exhibition in the department stores of De Bijenkorf (Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam) from 23 June to 8 July 1939.
- Bookplate on verso frontwr.
= Rare. Reading p.17; Mertens p.24; Bool/ Broos p.58 and 94; Burke/ Kindel/ Walker, p.290-293. Published on occasion of an exhibition in the department stores of De Bijenkorf. Together with 'Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft' the exhibition 'Rondom Rembrandt' was one of the major undertakings of the Isotype Movement, and one in which Arntz and Neurath demonstrated the value of using graphic approaches in a historical field.
WITH a PROOF of the frontwrapper.
= Both very rare. Petersen/ Brattinga, p.193 (ills.).
AND 1 other designed by the same.
- Fine.
= Extremely rare and early work by Willem Sandberg. Petersen/ Brattinga p.17; Petersen p.17: "(...) Hj maakte (...) kennis met de nieuwe, opzienbarende beeldstatistiek van Otto Neurath, die hij uitvoerig bestudeerde. Daarin, meer dan in het vrije kunstenaarschap, zag hij een zinvolle mogelijkheid voor zijn eigen beeldende capacitetien. Immers, de beeldstatistiek tracht het exact wetenschappelijke te paren aan het bezielende der kunst en de heldere eenvoud van deze beide in zich te vereenigen, zoals hij schreef in de brochure Het verleden in Egyptische reliëfs, het heden in statistiek en beeld [sic], die hij in 1929 uitgaf en waarmee hij zichzelf introduceerde als ontwerper van beeldstatistiek (...)".
- Some Dutch annotations scattered throughout. Somewhat yellowed as usual; corners sl. bumped; cl. sl. worn along extremities (mostly at foot of spine).
= Karasik p.258ff; Lissitzky-Küppers p.97; cf. Bool/ Broos p.53f. The album, produced for distribution at the New York World Fair, was designed by El Lissitzky, together with A.S. Grigorevich and M.V. Nikola, and was one of Lissitzkys last projects. It consists of 4 sections: State Organization of the USSR, Economic Construction (...), Welfare and Culture (...) and Position of Women (...). The Institute of Pictorial Statistics was founded in 1931, based upon the principles of the 'Vienna method' of isotypes, as developed by Dr. Otto Neurath in collaboration with Gerd Artnz. Arntz visited the Soviet Union regularly from 1931 onward, and was i.a. instrumental in educating the designers, linocutters, and statisticians working at the new institute. During those travels he also met with Lissitzky and Tatlin. "This book of statistics is got up like a real work of art, or at least an entertaining table game (...). The book features a variety of materials, printing techniques and types of visual aid: charts, diagrams, geographical maps, wood engravings, photographs, bas-reliefs, different typefaces (...)" (Karasik p.258). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE III.
- Wrappers trifle frayed.
= Very rare. Reading p.41; Burke/ Kindel/ Walker, p.359: "This booklet outlines government proposals based largely on William Beveridge's recommendations. It was the first published summary of a government White Paper to include diagrams, and was criticized for this reason in parliamentary discussions."
- Dustwrs. soccas. l. worn. Nevertheless a fine set.
= Reading p.41; Burke/ Kindel/ Walker, p.360: "'The Soviets and Ourselves' (...) begun during wartime and, while certified to conform with the Book Production War Economy Standard, they were subsidized by the Ministry of Inofmation. This explains the extensive colour printing afforded to the isotype charts." I. M. LOVELL, Landsmen and Seafarers; II. K.E. HOLME, Two Commonwealths; III. R. PARKER, How do you tovarish?
= Published on occasion of the exhibition "Arbeiter in de Zwischenkriegszeit. Otto Neurath und sein Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum in Wien 1925-1934 - Politische Grafik von Gerd Arntz und den Konstruktivisten". WITH the orig. invition to the opening of the exhibition and WITH the orig. fold. brochure for the exhibition.
Graphic communication through Isotype. Reading, University of Reading, 1975, 1st ed., 47p., ills., orig. wr., 4to.
= Published in connection with an exhibition recording the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum in Wien. SIGNED "Miez" by Marie Neurath. WITH the orig. invitation for the opening of the exhibition and WITH a series of 6 loose information lvs. w. descriptons of the exhibited items.
AND 8 others, all but one small publications, brochures, offprints etc., i.a. N. VOSSOUGHIAN, Otto Neurath, The Language of the Global Polis (Rott., (2011), ills., orig. wr.); OTTO NEURATH, SOCIAL SHOWMAN (n.pl., offprint from Survey Graphic, Nov. 1936); DE MODERNE MENSCH ONTSTAAT (...) (Amst., (1940), (col.) pictographs by G. ARNTZ. The rare publisher's brochure for the Dutch edition of Modern Man in the Making); M.L. NEURATH, Report on the last years of Isotype work (Bussum, offprint from Synthese, vol.VIII (1950-1951), nos.1-2, orig wr.).
- A few w. owner's entry/ some sm. defects. Mostly fine.
= The Pocket Year Book of the Netherlands Central Bureau of Statistics was published since 1924. The year 1940 was the first to include illustrations by Gerd Arntz. Bool/ Broos p.94.
- Wrappers partly sl. soiled.
= The Pocket Year Book of the Netherlands Central Bureau of Statistics was published since 1924. The year 1940 was the first to include illustrations by Gerd Arntz. Bool/ Broos p.94. Provenance: the De Kanter family.
- Wrappers sl. worn, otherwise fine.
= Van Dam, p.176. Rare. Comprises a list with the VAEVO prints from 1916-1933, partly illustrated.
- Wrappers sl. soiled/ yellowed and some vague foxing.
= Wendingen, year 11, no.9. Jansen p.51ff; Le Coultre 11-9 d; Broos/ Hefting p.75; Rössler p.76; Burke/ Kindel/ Walker, p.239.
= A Fighting Forces-Penguin Special S216. Modley was a pupil of Otto Neurath. In 1930 he emigrated to America where he founded the "Pictograph Corporation", who is credited for the illustrations of this volume.
AND 7 other miscell. publications with infographics, i.a. De Noordoostpolder in beeld (Zwolle, ±1955, 2 fold. maps, infographics and ills., orig. wr.); O.B.A.S. 125 jaar brandverzekering (Wirdum, 1940, infographics and ills., orig. wr., 4to) and Rotterdam zijn woningen vroeger en nu (Rott., 1950, infographics and ills., orig. wr., sm. sq. 4to).