Merz to Emigre and beyond : avant-garde magazine design of the twentieth century / Steven Heller.
By: Heller, Steven [author]
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BookPublisher: London ; New York : Phaidon Press, 2003Description: 240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0714839272 (hardback).Other title: Avant-garde magazine design of the twentieth century.Subject(s): Magazine design | Graphic design (Typography)DDC classification: 741.652 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 741.652 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00079021 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Merz to Emigré and Beyond is an historical survey of avant-garde cultural and political magazines and newspapers all the way from the early twentieth century to the present day. The book features a unique selection of international publications from Europe and the USA including Merz (1920s), View (1940s), East Village Other (1960s), Punk (1970s), Raw (1980s) and Emigré (1990s).
The design of these magazines, often raucous and undisciplined, was as ground breaking as the ideas they disseminated. Many were linked to controversial artistic, literary and political movements, such as Dada, Surrealism, Modernism, the New Left and Deconstruction. They contain the work of many leading experimental artists and designers of their time - from Kurt Schwitters and El Lissitzky in the 1920s and 30s, to Art Spiegelman and Rudy Vander Lans in the 1980s and 90s.
Bibliography: (pages 233-234) and index.
The Paper Avant-Garde -- The Old Vanguard: The Power of the New Press -- Futurism and its malcontents: A revolution in print -- The art of anti-art: The magazine as Clarion of Protest -- Protest and Resistance: Berlin from World War I to the third reich -- Rational Radicals: Modernism and the New Typography -- Guerrillas of Commerce: The Journals of Radical Design -- Art Attack: Aesthetics and the cultural revolution -- Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll and Politics: The influence of the American Underground -- Pixel Pirates: The Desktop Era -- Epilogue: A few loose ends.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Steven Heller is senior Art Director for the New York Times & author of over seventy books on art, culture, & design.He lives in New York City.
(Bowker Author Biography)