Bruno Munari: Machines Before Machines [Italian and English texts]

Author: Stefania di Maria
In the 1930s, Bruno Munari drew ‘humorous cartoons’ for Bertoldo and Settebello, accompanying them with ‘puns and strange little stories’ inspired not only by Saul Steinberg, with whom he collaborated, but also by the American cartoonist Rube Goldberg, known as the inventor of the ‘Rube Goldberg machine’. These early experiments in freedom would later be systematised into Munari's first book, Munari's Machines.In this book edited by Stefania di Maria, a researcher and scholar of the relationship between art and design, over 40 cartoons published in Settebello in the late 1930s and now part of the private collection of Bruno Munari's heirs and grandchildren are collected.Machines before machines is the new volume in the series of the Quaderni di Spazio Munari, a series of in-depth studies and previously unpublished looks at the work of the great artist and designer starting with the research exhibited at Spazio Munari.
ISBN 9791254931431. Edizioni Corraini. pb. 96 pages. 21 x 29.7cm.
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