Comments on: MOMA's Collection of Illustrated Books

MOMA's Collection of Illustrated Books

Kattullus — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:03:21 -0800

MOMA has around 400 images from its collection of illustrated books available online. It's heavy on the works of the early 20th Century European avant-garde, especially the Russian Futurists, though it extends into the present day. Here are a few of the images that I liked: Aleksei Krucenykh and Kirill Zdanevich, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Olga Rozanova, Ekaterina Turova, El Lissitzky, Max Ernst, Raymond Pettibon, Vasily Kandinsky and Natalia Goncharova.

As a bonus here's El Lissitzky's lovely children's book, About 2 Squares.

Kattullus — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:10:41 -0800

Thanks to languagehat for pointing me towards About 2 Squares in a comment to my previous post about blogger Owen Hatherley.

mattoxic — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:03:21 -0800

Hmmm, not sure about the logo for the Red Studio looks like someone got whacked.

peacay — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:43:04 -0800

Great post, thanks!

TrialByMedia — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:14:44 -0800

Was just reading about Mayakovskiy and Russian Futurism earlier today. Nice post!

The Salaryman — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 06:08:45 -0800

This post has put me in a state of grace. Cheers!

languagehat — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 06:41:05 -0800

Slack-a-gogo — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:00:25 -0800

way cool - i can't pick a few faves becasue most of it is pretty damn cool. thanks.

StickyCarpet — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:36:36 -0800

If you like this, you'll like The Russian Avant-Garde Book I'm glad I went to that show so I can skip the flash maze.

scody — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:46:02 -0800

*swoons*

winna — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:33:20 -0800

preeeeeetty. Thanks so much!

Sukiari — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 17:20:49 -0800

What is it 1997 again? Wouldn't want those page load times negatively affected by obnoxiously large images.