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Pictograms Warja Honegger-Lavater - Pictograms
A previously unpublished collection of 60 ink pictograms, drawn between 1976 and 1996, originally printed individually as A2 plane prints.
New edition of the book published in 2008 (ISBN 978-3-905714-24-1).
An early progenitor of the artist's book genre, Warja Honegger-Lavater was born in Winterthur, Switzerland in 1913. She worked as an illustrator for the magazine Jeunesse from 1944-1958, and moved to New York shortly thereafter where she began a wonderful series of artist's books.
These books were published between 1962 and 1971, an exceptionally ripe time for artists to turn to the bookform, a time when the most often cited "first" artist's book also appeared, Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1962) by Ed Ruscha.
All of Honegger-Lavater's books are made using the accordion-fold binding. Her aesthetic has been aptly described as "very clean, very Swiss." Each book tells a story, sequentially, like traditional books, but varying from them by rarely using words. Instead she chooses a symbol to represent, for example, a character, as in the red dot standing in for Red Riding Hood in Little Red Riding Hood.
Text by Warja Honegger-Lavater.
 
published in September 2023
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
19,5 x 25,5 cm (softcover)
124 pages (124 b/w ill.)
 
32.00
 
ISBN : 978-3-907179-64-2
EAN : 9783907179642
 
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