FUNCTIONAL GRAPHIC DESIGN IN THE 20′S
I NEED TO GET MY HANDS ON THIS ONE!
Eckhard Neumann: FUNCTIONAL GRAPHIC DESIGN IN THE 20′S. NYC: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1967. First edition. Full cloth over boards in dust jacket: a near-fine or better copy with light wear overall. Interior unmarked and very clean. Classic early design work that is now sadly out-of-print.
8.25 x 8.25 hardcover book with 96 pages and 113 illustrations in b/w or two colors. This influential book was the first scholarly study to tie together the disparate elements of the European Avant-Garde (Bauhaus, Dada, Cubism, Futurism, de Stijl, etc. ) and how they related to the emerging field of Graphic Design. Highly recommended.
From the book: “This important book documents that astonishinglycreative decade — the 1920’s, with its entirely new and functional visual language. The innovative art trends of the twentieth century, which include Cubism, Futurism, and Dadism, have had a determining influence on the development of today’s visual language.”
Eckhard Neumann reveals through a clear and well-illustrated text the close historical connection between fine art and graphic design, and discusses the origins of graphic design today.”
