Motif 6 Spring 1961. Cover by Hans Unger.
“Over the course of thirteen issues, published from 1958 to 1967, Motif ran meticulously researched and beautifully illustrated articles about painting, sculpture, art education, graphic design, typography and lettering, illustration, photography, architecture, wood-engraving, and the history of the graphic arts. ‘Visual culture’ had yet to become a category of academic study and Motif’s urbane editor [Ruari McLean] and publisher [James Shand], whose careers began before the Second World War, would not have used the term. The magazine’s presentation of a wide array of visual arts on a more or less equal footing can nevertheless be seen as prescient [exemplifying] a new way of documenting and appreciating the [visible world].” Rick Poynor, ‘The world made visible’, Eye Magazine 62, Vol. 16, Winter 2006.
Title: Motif 6
Authors: Ruari McLean (ed), Maurice de Sausmarez on Dubuffet, Fritz Eichenberg “Lamentations of a graphic arts chairman”, Cecil Keeling on Roderick Barrett, Hans Unger “Uganda. some impressions of a recent trip”, Robert Melville on Reg Butler, Andrew Forge on the history of The Slade, Reyner Banham “The return of the curve: Gaudi and Le Corbusier” and more ….
Publisher: The Shenval Press, Soho
Publication date: Spring 1961
Format: Pictorial Hardcover
Pages: 104
Images: profusely illustrated in colour and monochrome throughout
Printer: Shenval Press
Condition: Very Good. Small chip to upper spine, covers slightly dusty, otherwise very good.
Stock Number: RB01697
“Over the course of thirteen issues, published from 1958 to 1967, Motif ran meticulously researched and beautifully illustrated articles about painting, sculpture, art education, graphic design, typography and lettering, illustration, photography, architecture, wood-engraving, and the history of the graphic arts. ‘Visual culture’ had yet to become a category of academic study and Motif’s urbane editor [Ruari McLean] and publisher [James Shand], whose careers began before the Second World War, would not have used the term. The magazine’s presentation of a wide array of visual arts on a more or less equal footing can nevertheless be seen as prescient [exemplifying] a new way of documenting and appreciating the [visible world].” Rick Poynor, ‘The world made visible’, Eye Magazine 62, Vol. 16, Winter 2006.
Title: Motif 6
Authors: Ruari McLean (ed), Maurice de Sausmarez on Dubuffet, Fritz Eichenberg “Lamentations of a graphic arts chairman”, Cecil Keeling on Roderick Barrett, Hans Unger “Uganda. some impressions of a recent trip”, Robert Melville on Reg Butler, Andrew Forge on the history of The Slade, Reyner Banham “The return of the curve: Gaudi and Le Corbusier” and more ….
Publisher: The Shenval Press, Soho
Publication date: Spring 1961
Format: Pictorial Hardcover
Pages: 104
Images: profusely illustrated in colour and monochrome throughout
Printer: Shenval Press
Condition: Very Good. Small chip to upper spine, covers slightly dusty, otherwise very good.
Stock Number: RB01697
“Over the course of thirteen issues, published from 1958 to 1967, Motif ran meticulously researched and beautifully illustrated articles about painting, sculpture, art education, graphic design, typography and lettering, illustration, photography, architecture, wood-engraving, and the history of the graphic arts. ‘Visual culture’ had yet to become a category of academic study and Motif’s urbane editor [Ruari McLean] and publisher [James Shand], whose careers began before the Second World War, would not have used the term. The magazine’s presentation of a wide array of visual arts on a more or less equal footing can nevertheless be seen as prescient [exemplifying] a new way of documenting and appreciating the [visible world].” Rick Poynor, ‘The world made visible’, Eye Magazine 62, Vol. 16, Winter 2006.
Title: Motif 6
Authors: Ruari McLean (ed), Maurice de Sausmarez on Dubuffet, Fritz Eichenberg “Lamentations of a graphic arts chairman”, Cecil Keeling on Roderick Barrett, Hans Unger “Uganda. some impressions of a recent trip”, Robert Melville on Reg Butler, Andrew Forge on the history of The Slade, Reyner Banham “The return of the curve: Gaudi and Le Corbusier” and more ….
Publisher: The Shenval Press, Soho
Publication date: Spring 1961
Format: Pictorial Hardcover
Pages: 104
Images: profusely illustrated in colour and monochrome throughout
Printer: Shenval Press
Condition: Very Good. Small chip to upper spine, covers slightly dusty, otherwise very good.
Stock Number: RB01697