Chapter 21: the Conceptual Image
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History of Graphic Design Lecture Six Professor Eckler George Lois George Lois (Designer) and Carl Fischer (Photographer), Esquire Cover, April 1968
History of Graphic Design Lecture Six Professor Eckler George Lois George Lois (designer) and Carl Fischer (photographer), Esquire cover, April 1968. Muhammad Ali posed as Saint Sebastian, who was condemned by Roman Emperor Diocletian and shot by archers. Armando Testa, poster for Pirelli, 1954. The strength of a bull elephant is bestowed on the tire by the surrealist technique of image combination. Seymour Chwast Milton Glaser Reynold Ruffins Edward Sorel Push Pin Studios Reynolds Ruffins, illustration forAmtrak Express magazine, 1983. Decorative color and abstracted forms typify Ruffins’s work over a half century. Edward Sorel, cover illustration for The New Yorker, April 2010. Milton Glaser, Bob Dylan poster, 1967. Transcending subject and function, this image became a symbolic crystallization of its time. Milton Glaser, Poppy Records poster, 1968. A poppy blooming from a granite cube symbolizes a new, independent company breaking through the monolithic conventions of the recording industry. Milton Glaser, “Art Is” poster, 1996. Visual and verbal meanings are explored by manifesting a hat as a photograph, a shadow, a word, a pictograph, and a written definition. Seymour Chwast, moving announcement for Elektra Productions, c. 1965. Walking, riding, or propelled by locomotive power, the client’s name travels to its new location. Seymour Chwast, poster protesting the bombing of Hanoi, 1968. A mundane adverting slogan gains new life when combined with a blue woodcut and offset printed green and red areas. Woody Pirtle, logo for Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Hair, 1975. In this graphic pun, the comb relates to the client’s name, which is spelled by the comb’s teeth. -
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GRAPHIC DESIGN 2016 CATALOG modernism101.com rare design books GRAPHIC DESIGN 2016 CATALOG modernism101.com rare design books GRAPHIC DESIGN 2016 CATALOG modernism101.com rare design books THE PARASITICAL DEPENDENCE ON RITUAL In his 1936 essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Me- chanical Reproduction” Walter Benjamin used the word “aura” to refer to the sense of awe and rever- ence one presumably experienced in the presence of unique works of art. According to Benjamin, this aura inheres not in the object itself but rather in external attributes such as its known line of ownership, its restricted exhibition, its pub- licized authenticity, or its cultural value. Aura is thus indica- tive of art’s traditional association with primitive, feudal, or bourgeois structures of power and its further association with magic and—religious or secular—ritual. With the advent of art’s mechanical reproducibility, and the development of art forms—such as film—in which there is no actual original, the experience of art could be freed from place and ritual and instead brought under the gaze and control of a mass audience, leading to a shattering of the aura. “For the first time in world history,” Benjamin wrote, “mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical depen- dence on ritual.” Thirty-six years later John Berger carried Benjamin’s ideas further in “Ways of See- ing,”—first in essay form, then a four-part BBC television series, and finally a book— when he explicitly stated that the modern means of production have destroyed the author- ity of art: “For the first time ever, images of art have become ephemeral, ubiquitous, insubstantial, avail- able, valueless, free.” Berger’s early seventies epiphany both predicted and damned our current digital culture by decades. -
NEWSLETTER 36 Antikvariat Morris · Badhusgatan 16 · 151 73 Södertälje · Sweden [email protected] |
NEWSLETTER 36 antikvariat morris · badhusgatan 16 · 151 73 södertälje · sweden [email protected] | http://www.antikvariatmorris.se/ warde, beatrice: A Merry Memory from BW for her friends in New York Dec. ’68 A charming Christmas card, folded twice. Text inside: ”As Morison could ne- ver be induced to smile in front of a camera, I had to resort to trickery to get a snaps- hot of that mischievous grin of his. I made him hold my cat Smoky, who always swore a blue streak when anyone picked him up. I thought you’d like to have a print of the resulting snapshot, taken in May, 1963.” Opposite the text a mounted photo of Stanley Morison with Smoky, the cat. SEK450 / €49 [atf] Specimen Book and Catalogue, 1923. Dedicated to the Typographic Art American Type Founders Company, Jersey City, N. J. 1923. 1148 pages. 4to (26,5 x 18,5 cm). Original cloth boards, grey cloth spine. Boards, spine worn, discoloured and soiled, cor- ners bumped, former owners signature, internally very good. Actually one of the better copies seen. Printed entirely from type and brass rules (no electrotypes of the original forms were used) in atf’s Specimen Printing Department. The catalogue contains a prodigious amount of material: type specimens, rules borders and ornaments, decorated initials alongside a range of printing tools and machinery. The page layouts are highly decorative and skilfully composed, with type displayed both in sample text and through rendering of fictitious advertisements, trade cards an newspaper columns. Printed in colour and b/w. ”The editor of this catalogue believes this to be the most satisfactory of modern specimen books.” Henry Bullen ”Duplicates...” p.