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Why Grown-Ups Should Play With Artists’ Books Designed for Kids

by Alexis Clements August 24, 2018August 23, 2018

A gloriously tactile exhibit at the Center for Book Arts offers a refreshing sense of playfulness in this age of anxiety.

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A New Dawn for an Italian Modernist’s Book About the Night

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 25, 2017

Bruno Munari’s 1956 art book In the Darkness of the Night takes readers on an illustrated journey from night to morning.

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An Eccentric Visual History of Our Most Basic Shapes

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 5, 2016February 5, 2016

In the 1960s, Italian artist Bruno Munari explored the visual history of the square, circle, and triangle in three books, which Princeton Architectural Press recently compiled.

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Broken Utopia: Abstract Painting in Italy

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli January 2, 2016January 5, 2016

Nobody believes in the simple narrative arc of Modern Art anymore; even so, Painting in Italy 1910s–1950s: Futurism, Abstraction, Concrete Art at Sperone Westwater is an instructive glimpse into the fullness and complexity lying beneath thumbnail histories of the avant-garde.

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Book Designs That Approach Reading as a Creative Act

Avatar photo by Allison Meier June 19, 2015June 21, 2015

When searching for a book to give his five-year-old son in 1945, Italian artist Bruno Munari was frustrated by the standard fairytale narratives and structured plots available.

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