Bibliography
Edward Wright’s exhibition catalogues
and catalogues designed by him
Useful and metaphoric objects (London: Mayor Gallery, [1948]) [catalogue of exhibition]
This is tomorrow, Independent group (London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1956) [catalogue of exhibition, designed by EW]
Edward Wright: paintings, reliefs, collages, 1954–9 (London: The Mayor Gallery, 1959)
Painting & sculpture of a decade, 54–64 (London: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 1964) [catalogue of exhibition, designed by EW and Robin Fior]
Ades, Dawn, Dada and surrealism reviewed, with an introduction by David Sylvester and a supplementary essay by Elizabeth Cowling (London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1978) [exhibition montages designed by EW, catalogue by Dennis Bailey]
Wright, Edward [et al], Edward Wright: graphic work and painting (London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1985)
Edward Wright: obra grafica (Caracas: Departamento de Diseño y Publicaciones Museo de Bellas Artes, 1985)
Writings by Edward Wright
‘Edward Wright’, Plan, no. 7, 1950, p. 21
‘Recent typography in France’ Typographica, no. 9, 1954, pp. 19–23
‘Writing and environment’, Architectural Design, vol. 26, December 1956; reprinted in Edward Wright: graphic work and painting (Arts Council of Great Britain, 1985) pp. 61–3
‘Chad, Kilroy, the Cannibal’s Footprint and the Mona Lisa’ Ark, no. 19, spring 1957, pp. 4–7
‘The arrow in the road’ Typographica, no. 13,1957, pp. 18–21
‘The painter’, in: John M. Todd (ed.), The arts, artists and thinkers (London: Longmans, Green, 1958) pp. 102–9; reprinted in Edward Wright: graphic work and painting (Arts Council of Great Britain, 1985) pp. 64–8
‘The green box’, Typographica, no. 2 (new series) 1960, pp. 35–40
‘Emphatic fist, informative arrow’, Typographica, no. 12 (new series) 1965, pp. 47–66; reprinted in Edward Wright: graphic work and painting (Arts Council of Great Britain, 1985) p. 69
‘Paul van Ostaijen’ Typographica, no. 15 (new series) 1967, pp. 2–12; reprinted in Edward Wright: graphic work and painting (Arts Council of Great Britain, 1985) pp. 70–3
‘Vertical group exercises in graphic design’, Visible Language, vol. 1, no. 4, 1967, pp. 387–408 [with Jean Collins]
‘What do you mean “The New Avant Garde”?’, Ark, no. 45, 1969; reprinted in Edward Wright: graphic work and painting (Arts Council of Great Britain, 1985) p. 74
‘The idiom of the revolutionary poster’, Art in revolution: Soviet art and design since 1917 (London: Arts Council, 1971) pp. 50–3, reprinted in Edward Wright: graphic work and painting (Arts Council of Great Britain, 1985) pp. 79–83
‘Conversation, handwriting and the poster’, Akros, vol. 6, no. 18, March 1972, pp. 71–83; reprinted also in: Typographic, no. 37, 1988–9, pp. 19; originally written for the symposium ‘Shaping of a graphic designer’s imagination’ at International Biennale of the Poster, Warsaw, 1970
‘The essential book’, Icographic, no. 5, 1973, p. 12–15; reprinted in Edward Wright: graphic work and painting (Arts Council of Great Britain, 1985) pp. 84–91
‘When we were young’, Art & Design, vol. 1, no. 6, July 1985, p. 40
‘The interlocking kit’, Edward Wright: graphic work and painting (Arts Council of Great Britain, 1985) pp. 59–60
‘Notes on a technical jargon’, Edward Wright: graphic work and painting (Arts Council of Great Britain, 1985) pp. 38–9
‘The elm tree’, Edward Wright: graphic work and painting (Arts Council of Great Britain, 1985) pp. 40–8
Ernesto Cardenal, Milpa (Cambridge: Michael Coles, 1988) [translated and designed by Edward Wright]
Writings about Edward Wright
anon., ‘Dada and surrealism reviewed. Hayward Gallery exhibition the architectural components’, Architectural Design, nos 2–3, 1978, pp. 136–7
—, ‘Edward Wright’, Architects’ Journal, no. 43, vol. 188, 26 October1988, p. 9
—, Designers in Britain, no. 2 (London: SIA, 1949) pp. 147, 151, 212, 232
—, ‘Concrete poetry exhibition’, Form, no. 4, April 1967, pp. 15–18
—, ‘Pattern, sound, and motion’, Typographica, no. 9, 1954, pp. 15–18
Alloway, Lawrence, ‘Art for the symbol – happy tribe’, Art News & Review, vol. 11, no. 10, 6 June 1959, p. 9 [review of EW’s exhibition ‘Edward Wright: paintings, reliefs, collages, 1954–1959’, Mayor Gallery, London, May–June 1959]
—, ‘Architecture, industry and art collaborate in congress exhibit’, Design, no. 153, pp. 60–2
Bailey, Dennis, ‘Tribute’, Typographic, no. 37, winter 1988–9, pp. 9–10
Bartram, Alan, Making books: design in British publishing since 1945 (London: The British Library, 1999)
Banham, Reyner, ‘This is tomorrow’, Architectural Review, September 1956, pp. 86–8
Bennett, Ronan, obituary ‘Sister Sarah Clarke’, The Guardian, 7 February 2002
Crosby, Theo (ed.), ‘Edward Wright’, Uppercase, no. 2, May 1959
— (ed), The architecture of technology (London: Whitefriars Press, 1961) [catalogue of the exhibition of the 6th Congress of the International Union of Architects, London 3–8 July 1961]
—, ‘International Union of Architects congress building, South Bank, London’, Architectural Design, November 1961, pp. 484–9
—, ‘Edward Wright’, Typographic, no. 9, February 1977, pp. 2–5
—, ‘The painter as designer’, Edward Wright: graphic work and painting
(Arts Council of Great Britain, 1985) pp. 49–57
Garland, Ken, ‘Teaching and experiment’, Edward Wright: graphic work
and painting (London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1985) p. 58
—, ‘The Wright stuff writ large’, Typographic, no. 37, winter 1988–9,
pp. 10–11
Harrison, Martin, Transition 1945 –?1960 (London: Merrell, 2002)
Harrison, Michael, ‘Painting, graphic work and an absent book’, Edward Wright: graphic work and painting (London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1985) pp. 9–37
—, ‘Eye for line as language’ [obituary], The Guardian, 21 October 1988
—, ‘Tribute’, Typographic, no. 37, winter 1988–9, pp. 12–13
Housden, Brian (ed), ‘Edward Wright environmental graphics’, Architectural Association Journal, July – August 1963, special number
Kinross, Robin, ‘An art offragments’, Times Literary Supplement, no. 4286, 24 May 1985, p. 581
—, ‘Tribute’, Typographic, no. 37, winter 1988–9, pp. 11–12
—, ‘Letters in the city’, Eye, no. 10, 1993, pp. 66–73
Mayer, Peter, ‘Concrete poems just are’, Eye, no. 20, 1996, pp. 70–7
Mukherjee, Trilokesh, ‘The example of Edward Wright’, Edward Wright: graphic work and painting (Arts Council of Great Britain, 1985) pp. 3–8; reprinted in Typographic, no. 37, winter 1988–9, pp. 8–9
Piech, Paul Peter, ‘Tribute’, Typographic, no. 37, winter 1988–9, pp. 7–8
Popper, Frank, Art: action and participation (London: Studio Vista, 1975)
Rykwert, Joseph, obituary for Edward Wright, The Independent, 19 October 1988 (reprinted in Typographic, no. 37, winter 1988–9, pp. 5–7)
Seeds, Glynn, Edward Wright’s lettering, unpublished undergraduate dissertation, Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading, 2002
Woods (ed), Gerald, et al, Art without boundaries: 1950 –?70, (London: Thames and Hudson, 1972)
Background and context
Kinross, Robin, Anthony Froshaug: Documents of a life / Typography & texts (London: Hyphen Press, 2000)
Lichtenstein, Claude, Thomas Schregenberger (eds), As found: the discovery of the ordinary (Baden: Lars Müller, 2001)
Poynor, Rick ‘Spirit of independence’ in Rick Poynor (ed), Communicate: independent British graphic design since the sixties (London: Laurence King in association with Barbican Art Gallery, 2004) pp. 12–47
Robbins, David (ed), The Independent Group: post-war Britain and the aesthetics of plenty (Cambridge, Mass: mit Press, 1990)
Stephen Bann (ed), Concrete poetry: an international anthology (London: London Magazine Editions, 1967)
Weston, Richard, ‘Stirling statement’, Architects’ Journal, vol. 187, no. 27,
6 July 1988, pp. 32–49