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Riviste d’arte - Transformation: Arts, Communication, Environment. A world review
nn. 1 - 2 - 3 (all published) New York, Wittenborn, Schulz, Inc., Publishers, 1950/1952, 3 issues, cm. 21.4x27.8, paperback, pp. 53- (7); 60 (61/120); 56 (121/176)
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Editing and graphic design of Harry Holtzman and Martin James. Magazine of art, literature, social culture, anthropology and science. Paper I (1950): 36 black and white illustrations: drawings, photographic images and reproductions of works created by Naum Gabo, Alexander Calder, Sebastian Matta, Le Corbusier, Ad Reinhardt ("Museum Landscape" with a story illustrated on two pages) to others. Texts by SI Hayakawa ("Modern art and 20th century man"), Sigfired Gidion ("Art on the ames demonstration. Art and perception"), Alfred H. Barr, Buckminster Fuller ("Comprehnsive designing"), Allen Walker Read (" The background of the word "semantics" "), Ad Reinhardt (" Museum Landscape "a two-page comic story), Le Corbusier, Piet Mondrian and many others. Paper II (1951): 44 black and white illustrations: drawings, photographic images and reproductions of works created by Gyorgy Kepes, Willem de Koonig, Ad Reinhardt ("Museum racing form" a comic story on two pages), René Magritte, Kurt Seligmann, Jan Arp and others. Texts by: Bernard Rudofsky ("The quiltmakers"), Gyorgy Kepes ("Scale, Structure, Rhythm"), Willem de Koonig ("The Renaissence and order"), Paul Meadows ("Industrialization of social research") and others. Paper III (1952): 44 black and white illustrations: drawings, photographic images and reproductions of works created by Ad Reinhardt ("Art of life of Art" a comic story on two pages), Merce Cunningham, Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock , Alberto Giacometti. texts by: Francis Bitter ("The potentialities of physics"), Leo Balet ("Implications of Einstein's totalism"), Merce Cunnigham ("Space, time and dance"), Gerhard Kallmann ("Reflections on design education"), Alberto Giacometti ("1 + 1 = 3"), Benjamin Péret ("Remembrance of things to come") and others.
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"Transformation it was a venue for a wide list of contributors from the areas of the arts and architecture; its fostering of a "holistic" approach to what was then called the "environment" could be thought of as anticipating what was going to be fully developed and tested in the still to come as "experiments" of the 1960s. While embedded in the art world, trans / formation was devoted neither to art nor to architecture but to a proposition that the arts and the sciences could be brought together in a common enterprise. To that end, the journal solicited contributions from natural and social scientists. Further, in addition to the CIAM contingent, it featured an array of other voices in the arts - Gyorgy Kepes, Buckminster Fuller, Marcel Duchamp, Ad Reinhardt, John Cage, Bernard Rudofsky-representatives of plural modernisms, "alternative" and "avant- garde. " Trans / formation therefore encompassed within a single historical object positions that have often been conceived to be communicating along an axis of oppositions: major and minor, central and marginal, dominant and critical. " (Vallye, Anna. "The strategic universality of trans / formation, 1950-1952," Gray room, New York, no. 35 Spring 2009: 28-57.).