Year: 1988
Place: New York
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Edition: 1st
Language: EN
Pages: 240
Condition: VG
Cover condition: G
Binding: HC, gray linen binding with dust jacket
Illustrated: More than 700 illustrations, including 225 plates in full color and a time line
Ft: 30x23,5 cm. 1485 gr.
- GRAPHIC STYLE:
What does British Art Deco look like? Or Italian Art Nouveau? Or De Stijl, Dada, or Polish Late Modern? In today's world, bom- barded with a barrage of visual styles ranging from the traditionally inspired to the most trendy, such questions take on a new interest and urgency. And Graphic Style is the most ambitious and successful effort yet to answer them.
This large, striking graphic-design compendium distills the essences of 48 styles, from Victorian to Post-Modern. The text is brief yet cogent, setting the scene at the beginning of each chapter for the visual fireworks to come. The more than 700 carefully selected illustrations run the gamut from fine art to ephemera, from prints, posters, photo- graphs, and book illustrations to teapots, wine labels, and shopping bags. Like a piece in a jigsaw puzzle, each illustration fits closely with the others in its section to define and illuminate the characteristics of a style. A unique graphic-design time line and a generous bibliography further round out the picture.
Steven Heller, art director of The New York Times Book Review and editor of the AIGA Journal, has written extensively on graphic design and illustration in numerous books and periodicals. Seymour Chwast, one of today's most honored designers and illustrators, has collaborated with Heller on several outstanding books, including The Art of New York, The Left-Handed Designer, and New York Observed (with Barbara Cohen).
With Graphic Style, Heller and Chwast share their special insights on a subject to which they are uniquely suited.
Every page of Graphic Style brims with rare, quirky, and stimulating delights, culled from the authors' extensive sources both in America and abroad. The result is a colorful, accessible visual history of 150 years of graphic design. It will surprise, inform, and inspire practitioners, students, and everyone interested in the fascinating and ubiquitous world of design.
CONTENTS:
GRAPHIC STYLE TIME LINE
INTRODUCTION
VICTORIAN:
British
American
French
ARTS AND CRAFTS:
British
American
ART NOUVEAU:
French/Belgian
Jugendstil
Glasgow Style
Vienna Secession
American
Italian
EARLY MODERN:
Plakatstil
Wiener Werkstätte
EXPRESSIONISM:
German
MODERN:
Futurism
Vorticism
Constructivism
De Stijl
Bauhaus
New Typography
ART DECO:
French
German
Swiss
Eastern European
Italian
English
American
Streamline
Dutch
DADA
HEROIC REALISM
LATE MODERN:
Swiss
English
American
Swiss International Style
Corporate Style
Revival
Eclectic
Polish
Psychedelic
Japanese
POST MODERN:
Memphis/Basel/Zurich
American New Wave
American Punk
American Post-Modern
European New Wave
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX.
