264 pages, essays, interviews with designers, plates, biographies, select bibliography, over 390 illustrations with 80 color plates, lenders, index; square 4to, navy cloth. Very good+, faint stain fore edge; contents fine; dust jacket near fine, light abrasion front.

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Title

Graphic Design in America: A Visual Language History

Publisher

Walker Art Center/ Harry N. Abrams, Minneapolis/New York

Publication Date

1989

Language

English

ISBN 10

0810910365

ISBN 13

9780810910362

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

Stated First Edition

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Near Fine

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Synopsis

Traces the development of modern graphic design, and shares the comments of top American designers

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This catalog is published to coincide with an exhibit organized by the Walker Art Center. Essays and testimonies from prominent designers attempt to review graphic arts "in aesthetic terms and as a barometer of the society they reflect." As in many other exhibit-related books, this effort does not have enough depth for the scholar yet is not sufficiently enticing to the general reader. Coverage is unfocused, and too many essays are ponderous, particularly in contrast to the candid and enlightening views expressed by the designers. Curiously, the book lacks visual appeal (footnotes dwarf stamp-sized illustrations on some pages). Philip B. Meggs's A History of Graphic Design ( LJ 6/15/83) is a better purchase for most libraries.
- Stephen Rees, Bucks Cty. Free Lib., Levittown, Pa.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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