Victor Vasarely

Art Notebook, July 1970 No.329. Cover design by Victor Vasarely.

Content includes:
Special feature: Why is this art? Taking the opportunity of the 10th Tokyo Biennale
Orientation to new expressions / Teruo Fujieda (with lines)
Writers of “Tokyo Biennale” <> / Yoshiaki Tono
Frontispiece / Klaus Linke; Reiner Ruttenbeck; Lelov Rowe; Barry Flanagan; Gilbert Zorio; Giuseppe Penone; Jannis Kounellis; Kazumasa Koike; Tatsuo Kawaguchi; Jiro Takamatsu; Kenji Komamaki; Koji Enokura; Shintaro Tanaka; Jannis Kounellis; Hell van Elk; Marx Lets; Daniel Buren; Hans Harke; Carl Andre; Christ; Case Sonja; Richard Serra; Toshiaki Minemura; Teruo Fujieda
Expo ’70 A place for new experiences from conception to completion Living environment of Pepsi Pavilion / Billy Kluver
Robert Morris’s physical sculpture from the exhibition / Tatsuo Kondo
From the exhibition Vasarely “Participation in Planetary Folktales” / Hiroshi Tomura
Contemporary art, sources and development ⑦ With Moholly Naji … Thinker of light and space / Yusuke Nakahara
Image transformation ⑦ See the symbol of human collapse and death in the landscape / Otsuro Sakazaki
Book Review “Visionary Art” / Yu Suwa
Book Review “Ortega Collection 3” / Taro Nomura
Reader’s page Let’s ask anything / Takachiyo Uemura
Serialization “Bitches Blue” by Miles Davis, a cheerful and chaotic ear / Jinichi Uekusa
Focus of the Month Barbara Hepworth Exhibition / Konosuke Hino
This Month’s Focus Wide Angle Yoshiaki Tono / Jiro Takamatsu
Focus of the Month Performing Art Exhibition / Yoshio Kitamura
This Month’s Focus Wide Angle–A Poetry Book “Angels Get in My Way”
Focus of the month Children’s outdoor festival issues / Yoshida Yoshie
This Month’s Focus Wide Angle–Hand Carved Records
Focus of the Month Global Dream Show / Kenji Kanesaka
This Month’s Focus Wide Angle–Juro Kara Recital
This month’s focus movie “Satyricon” / Jinichi Uekusa
This month’s focus announcement board
World trends Movie “Woodstock” can be done
World Trends Artist’s New World “Soho”
Exhibition Information Gallery, Museum, Department Store

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Victor Vasarely
Victor Vasarely, whose birth name is Győző Vásárhelyi was a Hungarian-French artist. He is best known as the leader of the Op art movement and his geometric paintings. Explore related designers including Franco Grignani. See also French graphic design history, and 1960s graphic design history.
Art Notebook
Art Notebook was a Japanese publication documenting contemporary art and design, serving as a reference for designers and artists in postwar Japan.

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Art Notebook, July 1970 No.329. Cover design by Victor Vasarely.
Art Notebook, July 1970 No.329. Cover design by Victor Vasarely.
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