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| Genre/Form: | Exhibitions |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Merrill C Berman |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Deborah Menaker Rothschild; Ellen Lupton; Darra Goldstein; Williams College. Museum of Art.; Cooper-Hewitt Museum. |
| ISBN: | 0300074948 9780300074949 0913697230 9780913697238 |
| OCLC Number: | 39218809 |
| Notes: | "Art and design from the Merrill C. Berman collection"--Half t.p. Catalog of an exhibition to be held at the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, N.Y. |
| Description: | xi, 206 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm. |
| Contents: | ch. 1. Dada networking: how to foment a revolution in graphic design / Deborah Rothschild -- ch. 2. Design and production in the mechanical age / Ellen Lupton -- Plates: design and the avant-garde -- ch. 3. Selling an idea: modernism and consumer culture / Darra Goldstein -- Plates: design and commerce, social change, politics. |
| Responsibility: | Deborah Rothschild, Ellen Lupton, Darra Goldstein. |
Abstract:
Drawing from Merill 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.
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