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Books > Arts & Architecture > Industrial / commercial art & design > Graphic design
Andy Warhol (1928–1987), a giant of twentieth century art, is
known to most people for his iconic images of soup cans, Coke
bottles, and Marilyn Monroe. Before his meteoric rise to fame in
the early 1960s as a Pop Art superstar, Warhol was a highly
successful commercial artist in New York. Â The late Matt
Wrbican, former chief archivist of the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh,
once said “there are very few stories left to tell about Warhol,
but textiles is one of themâ€. This is the first book devoted to
the commercial textile designs of this leading figure in the
history of art. With stunning new photography throughout, including
unpublished images of newly discovered textiles, the book sheds new
light on a previously undocumented but important aspect of
Warhol’s oeuvre. Featuring over 30 different textiles,
from ice cream sundaes to acrobatic clowns, Warhol: The
Textiles offers a unique record of the beginnings of one of the
twentieth century’s greatest artists. Published in association
with the Fashion and Textile Museum Exhibition Schedule:
Fashion and Textile Museum, London (March 31–September 10, 2023)
An original account of the life and work of legendary designer Jan
Tschichold and his role in the movement in Weimar Germany to create
modern graphic design Richly illustrated with images from Jan
Tschichold's little-known private collection of design ephemera,
this important book explores a legendary figure in the history of
modern graphic design through the artists, ideas, and texts from
the Bauhaus that most influenced him. Tschichold (1902-1974), a
prolific designer, writer, and theorist, stood at the forefront of
a revolution in visual culture that made printed material more
elemental and dynamic. His designs were applied to everyday
graphics, from billboard advertisements and business cards to book
jackets and invoices. This handsome volume offers a new
understanding of Tschichold's work, and of the underlying theories
of the artistic movement he helped to form, by analyzing his
collections: illustrations, advertisements, magazines, and books by
well-known figures, such as Kurt Schwitters, El Lissitzky,
Aleksandr Rodchenko, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and lesser-known
artist-designers, including Willi Baumeister, Max Burchartz, Walter
Dexel, and Piet Zwart. This book also charts the development of the
New Typography, a broad-based movement across Central Europe that
included "The Ring," a group formed by Schwitters in 1927.
Tschichold played a crucial role in defining this movement,
documenting the theory and practice in his most influential book,
The New Typography (1928), still regarded as a seminal text of
graphic design.
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