Graphic design in the twentieth century : a concise history / Richard Hollis.

"The story of graphic design is one of the most exciting and important in modern visual culture. Renowned designer and lecturer Richard Hollis's pioneering Graphic Design: A Concise History traced the medium's development in the twentieth century, beginning with its roots in printing, and defined it...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Graphic design
World of art.
Main Author: Hollis, Richard (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Thames & Hudson, 2021.
Edition:Third edition.
Series:World of art.
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Physical Description:x, 7-235 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • From Graphic Design to Design 1890 to 1914. The Art Poster ; The Beginnings of Design in Europe ; War and Propaganda 1914 to the 1920s
  • The Avant-Garde and the Origins of Modernism 1914 to 1940. Futurism and Italy ; Soviet Russia ; Germany ; The Netherlands
  • National Tendencies until 1940. Switzerland ; France ; Britain
  • The Designer and the Art Director. The United States in the 1930s ; War and Propaganda 1920s to 1945 ; The United States 1945 to the 1960s
  • Variants of Modernism in Europe. Switzerland and the Neue Graphik ; Italy and the Milanese Style ; France ; Northern Europe
  • Psychedelia, Protest and New Techniques. The Late 1960s
  • New Waves: Electronic Technology. The 1970s and 1980s
  • After Modernism: The End of Design? From 1990 to the New Millennium.