Caroline Hightower , Mildred Friedman, Joseph Giovannini, et al.: GRAPHIC DESIGN IN AMERICA/ A VISUAL LANGUAGE HISTORY. Abrams/ Walker Arts Center, 1989. First edition. Quarto. Embossed black cloth. Glossy printed dust jacket. Black endpapers. 264 pp. 80 color plates. 310 black and white illustrations. Illustrated essays. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Pencil gift inscription opposite Former owner stamp to half title page. A well handled copy, but still a very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
10.25 x 10.25 hardcover book with 264 pages and 390 illustrations, including 80 full-color plates. One of the most thoughtfully-assembled and best-written histories of the graphic design movement in America. Highly recommended.
From the book: ”During the past few decades the images of graphic design have come to play an increasingly significant role on the American scene. But despite their ubiquity and because they often serve commerce, these visual messages are seldom deemed significant or worthy of critical attention. Consequently, this book and the exhibition it accompanies, organized by the Walker Art Center in collaboration with the American Institute of Graphic Arts, comprise the first large-scale effort to examine America’s most pervasive art form.
They review all of its aspects – from print through electronics, from the late nineteenth century to the present – in aesthetic terms and as a barometer of the society they reflect. An emblematic variety of design genres and issues is examined in the exhibition and the book, which includes essays by a number of today’s most astute design critics.”
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This volume includes work by the following Graphic Artists: A. M. Cassandre, Saul Bass, Lester Beall, Aaron Burns, Matthew Carter, Alvin Lustig, Ivan Chermayeff, Bradbury Thompson, Ladislav Sutnar, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, Herbert Matter, Muriel Cooper, Alexey Brodovitch, E. McKnight Kauffer, Gyorgy Kepes, Will Burtin, William Golden, Mehemed Fehmy Agha, Charles Coiner, Milton Glaser, Richard and Robert Greenberg, April Greiman, Tibor Kalman, Alexander Lieberman, Leo Lionni, Cipe Pineles, Will Bradley, Louis Danziger, Lou Dorfsman, W. A. (William Addison) Dwiggins, Frederic Goudy, Edward McKnight Kauffer, Herb Lubalin, Katherine McCoy, Christopher Pullman, Bruce Rogers, Nancy Skolos, Barbara Solomon, Deborah Sussman, George Tscherny, Massimo Vignelli, Henry Wolf, Richard Saul Wurman, Louis Silverstein, and pretty much everybody else.
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