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Softcovers. “Jointly commissioned by Open Editions (London) and the Stanley Picker Gallery (Kingston University). “Mazdaznan Health and Breath Culture… was first published in 1902 by The Sun-Worshiper Publishing Co. of Chicago in 1914… The source text for this new version… was published in 1940 by the Mazdaznan Library… Birkdale, Lancashire.” — ‘A note on the text and illustrations’, following p. 43 (i). “This book explores the intimate relationship between Mazdaznan, Johannes Itten and the Vorkurs (Preliminary or Foundation Course) at the Bauhaus, Weimar. It is a practical guide to performing the exercises that Itten taught at the Bauhaus and a celebration of a moment of mysticism at the heart of Modernism… [It] has been newly illustrated by Ian Whittlesea with drawings of current Foundation [art] students [at Kingston University, Surrey] demonstrating the exercises. It is followed by a selection of found texts and images that go some way to explaining the beliefs and history of Mazdaznan.” — back cover. Bound as two pamphlets with separate page numbering and sewn with different colour threads (blue and yellow), within a single cover. 1st thus 43pp + 67pp Near Fine