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One of the very best pre-Second World War surveys of avant-garde painting, sculpture, architecture and design, incorporating written contributions from such notable figures as Mondrian, Herbert Read, Ben Nicholson, Le Corbusier, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Maxwell Fry, Breuer, Neutra, Sartoris, Giedion, Gropius, Massine, Moholy-Nagy, Jan Tschichold and Lewis Mumford. The accompanying plates illustrate recent work both by some of these individuals and by other eminent contemporaries, including John Piper, Giacometti, Brancusi, Aalto and Lubetkin. 4to. viii + 289 + (1)pp, incl 41 + 26 + 52 photo plates.