image

Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age: Selections from the Merrill C. Berman Collection

Book Description: Drawing from Merrill C. Berman's private collection of 20th-century posters, adverts, photomontages and graphic ephemera, this book showcases over 200 examples of progressive graphic design from the 1920s and 30s. European, Soviet and American avant-garde designers and artists of the time, using new technologies of mass production and mass distribution, marketed everything from salad oil and cigarettes to communism, utopian socialism and the avant-garde itself. These selections from the Berman Collection include works by well-known artists (Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Cassandre, Man Ray and others) and by lesser-known masters. The book begins by detailing Berman's role in shaping the history of graphic design as he amassed his collection. The authors then investigate the filtering of avant-garde design into mass produced posters and advertisements, the evolution of design production techniques in the Machine Age and the avant-garde's promotion of itself. This book accompanies an exhibition that opens at the Williams College Museum of Art in April 1998, then travels to the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in February 1999, and later to Spain, Japan and The Henry Museum in Seattle.

Content Copyright © 1999-2008 Terms and Conditions of Use, Security and Privacy Policy | Resources: 1 2 3 | Site Map

Your Bookbag

Your Bookbag is now empty

Use your bookbag to search for multiple books at one time.
Find the best prices for all your textbook needs in one easy search.

To add an item simply select "Add to My Bookbag".

CopyScape