About this title: As a visual designer, Karl Gerstner led the double life of a graphic designer who worked on commission and an artist who worked according to his own directives. In the realm of the constructive, Gerstner's work is quite unique. He never composed pictures in the usual sense but rather made them as algorithms, i.e. through operations that generated endless possibilities. In each chapter of "Review of Seven Chapters of Constructive Pictures, etc.," Gerstner describes how he "found" a selection of individual pictures. The selected works span 50 years, from his early "serial pictures" of the 50s ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hatje Cantz and D.A.P., New York
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9783775791519ISBN:3775791515
Description: Gerstner, Karl. New in New jacket. 9 1/2 x 12" New copy in publisher's shrinkwrap. 258 pages, 607 illustrations in color and b/w. read more
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