{"product_id":"spirale-6-7","title":"spirale 6\/7","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere’s a publication we didn’t know about until it was delivered to our door. Published in Bern between 1953 and 1964, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/ksmallgallery.com\/search?q=spiralemag\"\u003e\u003cem\u003espirale\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e was a seminal international journal dedicated to concrete art, systemic design, and the emerging field of concrete poetry. It encouraged a move away from expressive abstraction toward a mathematical and geometric rationality. (Is that redundant?)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis one is a comprehensive double issue that signals the journal’s shift toward an interdisciplinary study of photography and concrete poetry. While earlier issues focused heavily on geometric painting, this 70-page edition bridges the gap between the static image and linguistic experiment. Central to this issue are two significant essays on the philosophy of photography by László Moholy-Nagy and Max Bense which provide a theoretical framework for the included “luminograms” and architectural documentaries. The poetry section is equally foundational, featuring poems in Italian, Portuguese, and German by Carlo Belloli, Eugen Gomringer, and Décio Pignatari (of the Brazilian Noigandres group). This issue is noted for being one of the first European publications to document the global reach of the concrete poetry movement, pairing these linguistic “constellations” with stark, high-contrast photography by Otl Aicher and Marcel Wyss. It’s also a wicked beautiful thing. Like, really. And the advertisements are good, too.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1184190644?share=copy\u0026amp;fl=sv\u0026amp;fe=ci\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWatch a flip-through of the whole thing here »\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TS1146","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49572356391152,"sku":null,"price":600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0003\/7040\/9508\/files\/spirale6-7_73799b4d-98ea-4fa2-8f90-755fd5140ffa.jpg?v=1776459479","url":"https:\/\/ksmallgallery.com\/products\/spirale-6-7","provider":"Katherine Small Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}