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by Bruno Munari
Bruno Munari (October 24, 1907 in Milan – September 30, 1998 in Milan) was an Italian artist, designer, and inventor who contributed fundamentals to many fields of visual arts (painting, sculpture, film, industrial design, graphic design) in modernism, futurism, and concrete art, and in non visual arts (literature, poetry) with his research on games, didactic method, movement, tactile learning, kinesthetic learning, and creativity. Bruno Munari joined the 'Second' Italian Futurist movement in Italy led by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in the late 1920s. During this period, Munari contributed collages to Italian magazines, some of them highly propagandist, and created sculptural works which would unfold in the coming decades including his useless machines, and his abstract-geometrical works.[2] After World War II Munari disassociated himself with Italian Futurism because of its proto-Fascist connotations.
The PREBOOKS, published for the first time in 1980, are a classic set of twelve small books ideally dedicated to young children who have not yet learned how to read or write. These twelve little books by Munari (10 x 10 cm) are designed to fit into small hands and come in many different and unusual colours, bindings and materials. They offer a variety of stimuli, emotions and sensations, emerging from perceptions and images.
Twelve small books in a larger book case
Case 28 x 39 cm
“they should give the sensation that books are indeed objects made like this and that they contain a wide array of surprises. Culture comes out of surprises, which are things that were unknown before” (B. Munari).
Once again Munari was ahead of his time: while computers are entering more and more deeply into young children’s lives this project helps them to touch, smell, watch and even taste the objects they have around them so that they do not lose contact, literally, with the concreteness of reality.
