Graphic design in the mechanical age
Subtitle: selections from the Merrill C. Berman collection
By: Deborah Rothschild, Ellen Lupton, Darra Goldstein.
Contributors: Lupton, Ellen.; Goldstein, Darra.; Williams College. Museum of Art.; Cooper-Hewitt Museum.
Publisher: Yale University Press in conjunction with Williams College Museum of Art [and] Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New Haven, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Berman, Merrill C. -- Poster collections; Graphic arts -- Exhibitions; Political posters -- Exhibitions; Commercial art -- Exhibitions; Advertising -- Social aspects
Description: "Drawing from Merrill C. Berman's private collection of twentieth-century posters, ads, photomontages, and graphic ephemera, this book showcases more than two hundred examples of progressive graphic design from the 1920s and 1930s. 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, most never before shown or reproduced in the United States, include works by well-known artists (Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Man Ray, and others) and by lesser-known masters. The book begins by detailing Berman's pivotal role in shaping the history of graphic design as he amassed his collection."--Jacket.
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.