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

Name: Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age : Selections from the Merrill C. Berman Collection
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ISBN: 9780300074949

ISBN-10: 0300074948

ISBN-13: 9780300074949

Edition: 1998

Authors: Deborah Rothschild, Ellen Lupton, Darra Goldstein

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Drawing from Merrill C. Berman's private collection of 20th-century posters, adverts, photomontages and graphic ephemera, this exhibition catalogue showcases over 200 examples of progressive graphic design from the 1920s and 1930s.

Book details

List price: $70.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Yale University Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 222
Size: 9.25" wide x 11.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.750
Language: English

Deborah Rothschildis Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Williams College Museum of Art.

Ellen Lupton is Adjunct Curator at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and Co-Chair of the Design Department of the Maryland Institute College of Art.



Directors' Foreword


Introduction: Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age Writing a History


Dada Networking How to Foment a Revolution in Graphic Design


Design and Production in the Mechanical Age


Plates: Design and the Avant-Garde


Selling an Idea Modernism and Consumer Culture


Plates: Design and Commerce, Social Change, Politics


Artists' Biographies


Checklist of the Exhibition