Italian Futurist artist/designer 1892-1960
“The art of the future will be largely advertising.” Fortunato Depero
The Bolted Book was a ground breaking typographic experiment and bold exploration in nearly every art and design medium.
The Book was a portfolio, business card, and portable museum (when the bolts were removed, the pages could be pinned up on a wall, exhibition style).
He was the only Futurist ever to live in New York City.
He produced graphic design and covers for Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and even pillow designs for Macy’s.
Depero urged artists to market themselves to potential clients.
In a way it could be looked upon as the first internet portfolio of it’s day
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Published by Designers & Books
“This publication of the 2017 facsimile edition of the Bolted Book (Depero Futurista) originated as a project on Kickstarter conceived by Designers & Books and coordinated by Designers & Books in collaboration with the Center for Italian Modern Art and the Mart, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto”–Reader’s guide.
New York Public Library Has an Original and Facsimile Version
By Appointment Only
Catalog page here
AUTHOR Depero, Fortunato, 1892-1960.
TITLE Depero futurista : 1913-1927 / Dinamo-Azari.
BOOK/TEXT | Edizione della Dinamo | 1927
SASB – Print Collection Rm 308 (Spencer Coll. Ital. 1927 95-354)
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About the Bolted Book
www.boltedbook.com
Bolted Book Brief
Fortunato Depero at Designboom
Depero exhibition at the Center for Italian Modern Art, 2014
www.typeroom.eu
https://www.architetti.com/depero-futurista-il-libro-imbullonato-va-nuovamente-in-stampa.html
www.lavocedinewyork.com
typostrate.com
formfiftyfive.com
www.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com
www.newyorker.com
Publications
“Fortunato Depero (1892–1960): A Chronology” in Futurist Depero 1913–1950, catalogue for the 2014 exhibition at the
Fundación Juan March in Madrid (pages 437–440):