Lucio FONTANA

[#20691]

ARK No. 24, with cover design by Fontana, green cover with (hand-made) punched holes. London, October 1958. (16)48(12)pages with folding insert. Untrimmed, and fine condition, 27x21,8 cm.. Inside front cover text printed in green and orange. Together with the promotional leaflet,10x21,5 printed in gold on shiny black paped,folded once (this was originaklky intende to be wrapped around the cover, and is now loosely inserted inside, fine.

EUR 2,500.00

This is the green version of the cover (there was also a similar version in Orange). Contains also by Fontana: Technical Manifesto,presented at the 1st Inter.Congress of Proportionat the 9th Triennale,Milano 1947, w.commentary by Lawrence Alloway (pages 4-7) Complete with Pochoir by Michael Davies and the folding inserted sheet Ëvery Which Way (project for a film) by Robyn Denny & Richard Smith, and Leaning Tower of Venice (Ralph Rumney). Also litho insert on p. 3. This is an issue of the periodical ARK of the Royal College of Art, London, published from 1950-1973 (Ruhe/Rigo Fontana Bibl., p 204).

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