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| The essential Gerstner books |
Hatje Cantz published two books that summed up Gerstner's creative career. 'Karl Gerstner: Review of 5x10 years of graphic design etc' from 2001 (ISBN 3775790594) looked at his commercial work as an Art Director for an ad agency, a publication and type designer (all the type in both books use the face he designed).
This book, published in 2004, covers his remarkable mathematical abstract art and it's written as a part autobiography. there are just over six hundred pictures from Gerstner's first abstracts in 1953 up to his work with fractals in the mid-nineties. The six chapters, each dealing with a different abstract style, start with an essay followed by pages of stunning art, mostly one to a page. A final section of eighteen pages has a long essay: Visual art in the twentieth century.' I've always thought that his work is unique because it's very precise and controlled and within these limitations he produces such exciting pictures.
It's worth saying that the book is long out of print but a few copies do appear on the net.
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