GOMEZ, HELIOS & Jean Cassou (introduction)
Viva Octubre! Dessins sur la Revolution Espagnole Third (French) edition. 1/1000)
Brussels : Published by E. P. I., printed by Bolyn, 1937.. Red/black cover illustration: "Libertaria" a young, sixteen year old girl, killed near the machine gun she defended with until the last moment at the North Station in Oviedo, occupied by the revolutionaries. 27 x 21 cm : 3 leaves (Text), 20 leaves (Plates), (2)p. WITH 20 FULL-PAGE WOODCUTS]WITH 20 FULL-PAGE WOODCUTS] SOFTCOVER: (Orig. pictorial boards. Bit browning. VERY GOOD)
¶ EXTREMELY RARE attractive album of Spanish Civil War woodcuts by Helios Gomez (1905-1956) who was a Spanish painter and anarchist activist. He is considered to be one of the most influential Spanish graphic artists of the first half of the 20th Century. Gomez was the first president and founder of the professional draftsmen syndicate in 1936 in Barcelona. "). "Viva Octubre" (Long live October) is Helios Gomez's third album in which he pays tribute to the revolutionary events that shook Spain, especially in Asturia, in October of 1934. Most of these woodcuts were designed from October to December 1934, aboard the "Uruguay," a floating prison in the port of Barcelona. Introduction by Jean Cassou. "Helios Gomez is a superb exponent of the graphic splendor that was born in the heat of the aesthetic avant-garde and that became popular during the years of the Republic, showing its influence both on political posterism and on commercial iconography. The style of Helios Gomez is based on the unmistakable use of a violent black and white that, influenced by cubism, seeks to construct images with volume and dynamism, figurativ but not without a dreamlike dimension that sublime the allegations and claims of the particular universe of the artist." (From the Helios Gomez Foundation).
Boeknummer: 22014
€ 1047.25
Trefwoorden: europa spain civil war revolution 1936 anti-Franco IB : international brigade