Constructive Clarity: Max Bill and His Time 1940-1952. Biography

The second volume of Angela Thomass multivolume biography, which covers Bill’s life during World War II and the postwar period. Max Bill was one of the most versatile artists of the 20th Century, working as a designer, painter, sculptor, architect, graphic artist, furniture designer, typographer, writer, curator, educator, lecturer, and politician. In her multivolume biography, art historian Angela Thomas uses a variety of sources books, journals, interviews, and several unpublished documents to introduce readers to the artist’s life and work and to explore the personal, cultural, and political circles he was active in. Following the first volume of the biography, Thomas now devotes the second installment to Bill’s life during World War II and the postwar period.