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Graphic Design A New History

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ISBN-10: 0300120117

ISBN-13: 9780300120110

Edition: 2007

Authors: Stephen J. Eskilson

List price: $65.00
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This exciting new history of graphic design explores its evolution from the late 19th century to the present day. Organized chronologically, the book illuminates the dynamic relationship between design and manufacturing as well as the roles of technology, social change, and commercial forces on the course of design history. The layout of each chapter reflects the unique style of the period it describes, and some 450 illustrations throughout the volume provide a visual record of more than one hundred years of creative achievement in the field. nbsp; Under the influence of William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement in the late 19th century, a new era began for design arts. Fueled by…    
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Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 10/25/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 464
Size: 9.00" wide x 11.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 5.456
Language: English

Introduction : the origins of typography and graphic design
Art nouveau I : a new style for a new culture
Art nouveau II : Scotland, Austria, and Germany
Sachplakat, the First World War, and Dada
Modern art, modern graphic design
Revolutions in design
The Bauhaus and the new typography
American art deco and the Second World War
The triumph of the international style
Postmodernism, the return of expression
Contemporary graphic design