Graphis 55, 1954

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Content includes: Yoshio Hayakawa (Ryuichi Yamashiro)
Jacques Richez (Maria Netter)
Artists Announce the Stork’s Arrival (Maria Netter)
Hans Fischer. Murals (Manuel Gasser)
Atelier 17 (Stanley William Hayter/M. Clarac-Serou)
Two Boys visit a Motor Car Factory in Milan (Leonardo Sinisgalli)
Art in American Science Fiction (Ernst Lehner)
Harry O. Diamond on cooking (Philip & Helen Evans Brown)
Laboratori Crippa e Berger (Paul Arthur)
The University Centre of Caracas (F. Stahly)
Electronic Abstractions (Ben F. Laposky)

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Graphis 55, 1954. Cover design by Hans Fischer
Graphis 55, 1954. Cover design by Hans Fischer
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