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Book Illustration, Les mots en liberté futuristes (Futurist words in freedom), Mon ami, ma petite (My friend, my little)
This is a book illustration. It was created by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and published by Edizioni futuriste di "Poesia". It is dated 1919. It is a part of the Smithsonian Libraries department.
This foldout plate is from Les mots en liberté futuristes, a portfolio that was both written and designed by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the author of the famous manifesto for the Italian Futurist movement. Its ingenious typographic design and explosive layout introduced a powerful technique for representing the noisy energy of 20th-century life. The different styles and sizes of its typefaces defied traditional rules of structure and punctuation and heralded a revolution in modern visual communication. It was a pioneering example of what is known as visual or concrete poetry, in which avant-garde artists harnessed typography and page layout for expressive purposes.
It is credited Collection of Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
- Sidewall, Newsworthy
- coiled newspaper woven with nylon filaments, paper backing.
- Gift of Lori Weitzner.
- 2010-15-1
![A vertical cream prospectus for Josef Hartwig's Bauhaus chess set with German text in black and red rotated at various angles, and three small black and red squares forming a right-angled right angle. To the left, rotated counter-clockwise in black capitalised German text is written [LUXUS U. GEBRAUCHSSPIELE], meaning [Luxury Use Games], with the LUXUS in a larger font than the U. GEBRAUCHSSPIELE. In the center, the German words [BAUHAUS HARTWIG], meaning [Bauhaus Hartwig] are written in black capitals, with the German word SCHACH, meaning [CHESS] written in red capitals underneath in larger font, with the S taking up the space of both lines. To the right of the 'h' of SCHACH the German words [ZU BEZIEHEN DURCH], meaning [released by] are written in small capitalised black letters. Below this to the right in black capitalised German text is written [STAATL. BAUHAUS WEIMAR], meaning [State Bauhaus Weimar], with Bauhaus Weimar underlined, implying that the chess set was released by the State Bauhaus in Weimar. Rotated counter-clockwise and growing from the 'h' in SCHACH the German words [GES. GESCH] are written in black capitals. Above and to the right of the 'h' in GESCH are three small black and red squares forming a right angled right angle, the bottom square is black with a red diamond inside, the square above is a red right angle with a black square at the bottom left and the square to the top left is black with a red x inside. To the top left of the square, capitalised black underlined German text reads [DIE SPIELSTEINE], meaning [The Game] with the German words [SIND IHREN FUNKTONEN] written in black capitals underneath. To the right of the black and red squares capitalised black German text reads [ENTSPRECHEND GESTALT], meaning [shape accordingly], possibly refering to the shape of the squares.](https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/358854_762bd5d79473231c_n.jpg "Prospectus, Bauhaus Hartwig Schach (Bauhaus Hartwig Chess), 1924")
- Prospectus, Bauhaus Hartwig Schach (Bauhaus Hartwig Chess), 1924
- lithograph.
- Collection of Merrill C. Berman.
- 15.2019.14
