Motif 1 1958. Including Edward Ardizzone, Lynton Lamb, Eisabeth Frink, Jean Lurcat, John Minton, Barnett Freedman.
First issue of Motif edited by Ruari McLean published by The Shenval Press in 1958. With pictorial boards designed and drawn direct for silkscreen by artist and illustrator, Charles Mozley (1914-1991). Illustrated throughout including typographical illustrations. Articles by Edward Ardizzone, Lynton Lamb, Richard Guyatt; articles on Eisabeth Frink and Jean Lurcat; illustrations by John Minton and Barnett Freedman etc. Contents: Photography : From realism to impressionism / Helmut Gernsheim -- Born illustrator / Edward Ardizzone -- Art and indolence : a guide to the art student of today / Richard Guyatt.
“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 1
Author: Ruari McLean (ed.)
Publisher: The Shenval Press, Soho
Publication date: 1958
Format: Colour pictorial paper-covered boards
Pages: 87pp.
Condition: Very Good. Upper edge of covers darkened, short split to base of spine. Otherwise very good.
Stock Number: RB01914
First issue of Motif edited by Ruari McLean published by The Shenval Press in 1958. With pictorial boards designed and drawn direct for silkscreen by artist and illustrator, Charles Mozley (1914-1991). Illustrated throughout including typographical illustrations. Articles by Edward Ardizzone, Lynton Lamb, Richard Guyatt; articles on Eisabeth Frink and Jean Lurcat; illustrations by John Minton and Barnett Freedman etc. Contents: Photography : From realism to impressionism / Helmut Gernsheim -- Born illustrator / Edward Ardizzone -- Art and indolence : a guide to the art student of today / Richard Guyatt.
“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 1
Author: Ruari McLean (ed.)
Publisher: The Shenval Press, Soho
Publication date: 1958
Format: Colour pictorial paper-covered boards
Pages: 87pp.
Condition: Very Good. Upper edge of covers darkened, short split to base of spine. Otherwise very good.
Stock Number: RB01914
First issue of Motif edited by Ruari McLean published by The Shenval Press in 1958. With pictorial boards designed and drawn direct for silkscreen by artist and illustrator, Charles Mozley (1914-1991). Illustrated throughout including typographical illustrations. Articles by Edward Ardizzone, Lynton Lamb, Richard Guyatt; articles on Eisabeth Frink and Jean Lurcat; illustrations by John Minton and Barnett Freedman etc. Contents: Photography : From realism to impressionism / Helmut Gernsheim -- Born illustrator / Edward Ardizzone -- Art and indolence : a guide to the art student of today / Richard Guyatt.
“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 1
Author: Ruari McLean (ed.)
Publisher: The Shenval Press, Soho
Publication date: 1958
Format: Colour pictorial paper-covered boards
Pages: 87pp.
Condition: Very Good. Upper edge of covers darkened, short split to base of spine. Otherwise very good.
Stock Number: RB01914