Main entry:

Heller, Steven.

Title & Author:

Merz to Emigre and beyond : Avant-Garde magazine design of the twentieth century / Steven Heller.

Publication:

London ; New York : Phaidon Press, 2003.

Description:

240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-234) and index.
Introduction: The paper Avant-Garde -- The old vanguard: the power of the press -- Futurism and its malcontents: a revolution in print -- The art of anti-art: the magazine as clarion of protest -- Protest and resistance: Berlin from World War I to the Third Reich -- Rational radicals: modernism and the New Typography -- Guerrillas of commerce: the journals of radical design -- Art attack: Aesthetics and the cultural revolution -- Sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll and politics: the influences of the American underground -- Pixel pirates: the desktop era -- Epilogue: A few loose ends.

Summary:

Merz to Emigre and Beyond is an historical survey of Avant-Garde cultural, art and political magazines and journals from the early twentieth century to the present day. It examines the publications that were at the forefront of graphic design throughout the twentieth century and which challenged typographic convention, providing a platform for the dissemination of the ideas of the most radical art, design and political movements of the last hundred years. The book features a unique selection of international publications from Europe and the USA -- including Merz (1920s), La Revolution Surrealiste (1920s), View (1940s), The East Village Other (1960s), Punk (1970s) and Emigre (1990s). The design of these magazines, often raucous and undisciplined, was once as ground-breaking as the ideas they disseminated. Many were linked with controversial art, literary and political movements such as Dada, Surrealism, Futurism, the Bauhaus, the New Left and Postmodernism. Merz to Emigre and Beyond surveys the typography and layout that distinguished these journals from the mainstream, and also places the Avant-Garde notions these magazines represented in their broader artistic, cultural and political contexts."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0714839272
9780714839271

Subject:

Magazine design History 20th century.
Graphic design (Typography)
Graphic arts.
Périodiques Design Histoire 20e siècle.
Arts graphiques.
graphic arts.
graphic design.
Magazine design
Grafische vormgeving.
Typografie.
Tijdschriften.
Avant-garde.
Artes gráficas (história) Século 20 Europa;estados unidos.
Ilustração.
Revistas Século 20 Europa;estados unidos.
Tipografia.
20e siècle.
Histoire.
Design.
Périodique.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Avant-garde magazine design of the twentieth century

Holdings:

Location: Library main 227959
Call No.: Z253.2 H4 2003
Status: Available