GRAPHIC DESIGN IN GERMANY 1890-1945.
Jeremy Aynsley
Jeremy Aynsley: GRAPHIC DESIGN IN GERMANY 1890-1945. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. A Fine hardcover book in a Fine Dust Jacket: unread. Interior unmarked and very clean.
10 x11 hardcover book with 240 pages and 253 illustrations (152 in ful color). Published on the occasion of the 2000-1 exhibition at the Wolfsonian-Florida International University.Since this book of extraordinary German Design ephemera was published, it has become the standard reference for German Graphic Design. Highly recommended.
Contents:
- Introduction
- Peter Behrens, Lucian Bernhard & Fritz Hellmut Ehmcke: Three Models of Graphic Designer
- Modernism & Graphic Art Education: The Bauhaus and the Reimann School 1919-1938
- Forces of Persuasion: Magazines, Exhibitions & Associations
- Style & Ideology: Nazification & Its Contradictions in Graphic Design 1933-1945
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- List of illustrations
Artist whose work appears in this volume include Herbert Bayer, Paul Klee, Walter Gropius, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Max Hertwig, Kurt Schwitters, Jan Tschichold, Ludwig Hohlwein, Paul Renner, Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, John Heartfield, El Lissitzky, Willi Baumeister, Heinz and Bodo Rasch, Peter Behrens, Lucian Bernhard, Fritz Ehmcke, Kathe Kollwitz, Julius Gipkens, George Trump, Alexander Koch, Otto Eckmann, Joseph Sattler, Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, and others.
"Aynsley does a fine job piecing together a fact-packed narrative drawn from primary and secondary sources, examining a design lineage that culminates in this survey with National Socialist propaganda. Aynsley's book is a model history. His sources are sound, his writing, though a tad academic, is clear. For those already familiar with German design, he does not break an abundance of new ground, but his quotes from period publications and pundits are fresh and enlightening. . . A valuable chronicle of the greatest highs and deepest lows in design history."
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