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Publisher: Verlag Hans-Rudolf Lutz
Language: German
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Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 25 cm
Release Date: 1975
Price: $160 USD (¥17,600 JPY)
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Condition: good (pre-owned)
a small stain on the cover, but overall it is in good condition
Author: Hans-Rudolf Lutz
This volume, 26 Werke 1969 bis 1974 – Gesamtausgabe Band 1, brings together the early works produced by Swiss conceptual artist Dieter Meier between 1969 and 1974.
What makes this book particularly significant is that its design was executed by Hans-Rudolf Lutz, one of the leading figures of Swiss typography.
Lutz’s editorial approach gives quiet form to the essential qualities of conceptual art—action, documentation, and instruction—through typography and layout stripped of any unnecessary ornamentation. The twenty-six works, ranging from photographs and action pieces to instruction-based works, are unified through the rigor of Swiss Modernism and Lutz’s own radical typographic principles, resulting in a publication with remarkable structural clarity and tension.
Although Meier later became internationally known as the frontman of Yello, this book preserves his early artistic practice in its purest form. At the same time, it stands as an invaluable example of Lutz’s design philosophy in collaboration with an artist.
With extremely limited circulation, this title is considered highly important—and highly rare—from both the perspectives of Swiss conceptual art and the history of typography.
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Hans-Rudolf Lutz was born in Zurich in 1939. After completing a four-year typesetting apprenticeship at Orell Füssli, he traveled through Europe and North Africa before continuing his studies in typography and design at the Schule für Gestaltung Basel, where he studied under Emil Ruder and Robert Büchler.
From 1964 to 1966, he led the “expression typographique” group at Studio Hollenstein in Paris, exploring new visual forms made possible by early photosetting technology. After returning to Zurich, he founded his own studio and publishing house, Hans-Rudolf Lutz Verlag, through which he wrote, illustrated, typeset, and produced nine books on visual communication, as well as titles by other designers.
Lutz served as visual director for the avant-garde electronic and multimedia group UnknownmiX from 1983 to 1994, and continued creating visual work for live events thereafter. He taught for more than thirty years at the design schools in Zurich and Lucerne, where he founded the typography department in 1968, and also lectured internationally.
Hans-Rudolf Lutz passed away in January 1998.