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Robots 1:1 : R.F. collection

Title
Robots 1:1 : R.F. collection / editor: Rolf Fehlbaum ; photos, André Giese, Moritz Herzog.
Publication
  • Weil am Rhein, Germany : Vitra Design Museum, [2018]
  • ©2018

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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.

TextUse in library JQJ 18-1Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300

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Additional Authors
  • Fehlbaum, Rolf, 1941-
  • Giese, André
  • Herzog, Moritz
Description
273 pages : chiefly color illustrations; 49 cm +
Summary
'ROBOTS 1:1' explores the space-themed toys in the R. F. Robot Collection held by the Vitra Design Museum. Largely produced in Japan between 1937 and 1973, these figures of robots (and the occasional astronaut) have been carefully researched and compiled over the years by Rolf Fehlbaum, Chairman Emeritus of Vitra and founder of the Vitra Design Museum, who describes them as "small kinetic sculptures of great originality." Ever since the term's first appearance in Czech writer Karel Capek's science fiction play R.U.R. in 1921, robots have both served and taken over the work of humans, creating human dependency and at times a shift in the power dynamics of a society. 'ROBOTS 1:1' is unique in that it shows the toys and their original packaging (when available) in a scale of 1:1, with the largest robot determining the size of the book. In this way, it conveys something of the uncanny nature of the robots and their ambivalence, while the vivid illustrations on the boxes give an idea of the futuristic fantasies developed over the period.
Alternative Title
Robots one to one
Subjects
Note
  • Numbered edition of 1000 books, signed.
  • Content of USB stick: 54 robots in motion.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Call Number
JQJ 18-1
ISBN
  • 9783945852279
  • 3945852277
LCCN
9783945852279
OCLC
1050750273
Title
Robots 1:1 : R.F. collection / editor: Rolf Fehlbaum ; photos, André Giese, Moritz Herzog.
Publisher
Weil am Rhein, Germany : Vitra Design Museum, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Edition
Numbered edition of 1,000 books.
Type of Content
still image
text
two-dimensional moving image
Type of Medium
unmediated
computer
Type of Carrier
volume
other
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Local Note
Library has copy number 221.
Added Author
Fehlbaum, Rolf, 1941-
Giese, André, photographer.
Herzog, Moritz, photographer.
Other Standard Identifier
9783945852279
Research Call Number
JQJ 18-1
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