Art Forms in Nature. Second Series. First American Edition.

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Author: Blossfeldt, Karl

Title: Art Forms in Nature. Second Series

Place Published: New York

Publisher:E. Weyhe

Date Published: 1932

Description:
xiii, [3] + 120 photogravure plates. 12½x9½", teal cloth gilt; pictorial dust jacket; original board slipcase. First American Edition.

Sequel to Blossfeldt's classic photobook Urformen der Kunst (Art Forms in Nature) which  according to Parr and Badger, presented "....photographic enlargements of plant leaves, stems and seed pods in order to reveal the link between the structure of plants and artistic form."  Published in Germany as Wundergarten der Natur: neue Bilddokumente schöner Pflanzenformen, the present work includes 120 photogravure plates. Blossfeldt comments on his project, "The plant may be described as an architectural structure, shaped and designed ornamentally and objectively. Compelled in its fight for existence to build in a purposeful manner, it constructs the necessary and practical units for its advancement, governed by the laws familiar to every architect, and combines practicability and expediency in the highest form of art. Not only, then, in the world of art, but equally in the realm of science, Nature is our best teacher." Parr & Badger Vol. I p. 96 (for Urformen der Kunst). Institutional stamps and remnants of circulation pockets. Each plate with a perforated institutional stamp (often within image area, sometimes with two such).