Kitazawa Yoshio, Hamada Masuji, Wantanabe Soshu, Tatsuke Yoichiro, et al. Gendai Shogyo Bijutsu Zenshu. (“The Complete Commercial Artist”). 24-volume-illustrated series (each vol. approx. 100-150 pp. including plates). 4to. Wrpps. Tokyo (Ars) 1927-1930. (46209)
Over the past five years or so, a loose cadre of visual data miners at blogs including BibliOdyssey, 50 Watts, but does it float, Accidental Mysteries, Agence Eureka, and La Boite Verte (to name but a few) have collectively developed an on-line pictorial archive of inestimable value to artists and graphic designers who wish to renew their powers in the streams of history. [click to continue…]
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Anarchy. A Journal of Anarchist Ideas. Vol. 1, no. 1 (Mar. 1961) – vol. 10, no. 12 (Dec. 1970) [Alternately numbered nos. 1-118.] (entire first series). 118 numbers in ten consecutively paginated volumes. 8vo. Illus. wrpps.
In the early 1960s, the editors of Freedom Press, those stalwart protectors of the anarchist tradition in Great Britain, scented change on the wind. Young people, many of them students, were looking to the libertarian left to make sense of vast social upheavals in post-war London and other urban centers. The anarchist movement’s anti-authoritarian principles and clearly articulated positions on affordable housing, social justice, and inviolate personal freedom carried a strong resonance. Suddenly, the imprint’s brand of politically-engaged anarchism was no longer the métier solely of bearded Kropotkin scholars.
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by Arthur on Monday, April 4, 2011
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Sawada, Yozo. Insatsu Taikan (Great Atlas of Printing). Unpaginated album. Sm. folio. Silk-covered boards, tie-bound. Osaka (Nihon Insatsu Kaisha) 1915. [46467]
Following the death of his father, the Meiji Emperor, on July 30, 1912, Crown Prince Yoshihito ascended to the Chrysanthemum Throne of Japan to become the Taishō Emperor. After three years of Imperial preparations, Yoshihito’s public coronation took place in November of 1915. The leaders of industries which had thrived during the Meiji period of modernization wisely turned out to pay tribute to the young monarch. Proud of their accomplishments during his father’s reign, Japanese printers and publishers marked the occasion with lavish commemorative publications. Insatsu Taikan—the Great Atlas of Printing—showcases the remarkable quality and innovation of printing in Japan, ca. 1915.
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