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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Rockwell Kent, The Modern School. A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Libertarian Ideas in Education, 1918

Rockwell Kent

The Modern School. A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Libertarian Ideas in Education, 1918
Stelton, MJ: Ferrer Colony
2056
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Rockwell Kent, The Modern School. A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Libertarian Ideas in Education, 1918
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16mo. 31pp, paginated continuously from previous issues. Initials and cover image designed by Kent. The school was a natural affiliation for him, even at this early point in his career,...
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16mo. 31pp, paginated continuously from previous issues. Initials and cover image designed by Kent. The school was a natural affiliation for him, even at this early point in his career, being a center for free-thinking and radical political action. The Ferrer movement, which spawned a Colony and School, centered its ideology on anarchism, in memory of Francisco Ferrer. The Ferrer system of education prioritized play and socialization as means of imparting upon its students a temperament for radical citizenship, in favor of labor rights, sexual health, and other humanitarian priorities. Both the Colony and the School drew the attention of a range of avant-garde and modernist thinkers and authors, including Will Durant, Margaret Sanger, Max Weber, Upton Sinclair, and the gallerist Carl Zigrosser. Zigrosser is the editor of this particular issue, and has drawn contributions, both offered and borrowed, from Jean Le Roy, Jacques Copeau, Odilon Redon, Walter Pach, Elie Faure, and Wallace Stevens (translating Le Roy). Bound in printed wrappers. Moderate chipping along edges, vertical crease to front cover, else very good. Laid in is a drawing of the School's New Jersey campus as illustration for a donation request.
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