Graphic Styles: From Victorian to Post-Modern - Steven HELLER & Seymour CHWAST
KORTE INHOUD
Illustrated: More than 700 illustrations, including 225 plates in full color and a time line
- GRAPHIC STYLE:
What does British Art Deco look like? Or Italian Art Nouveau? Or De Stijl, Dada, or Polish Late Modern? In today's world, bom- barded with a barrage of visual styles ranging from the traditionally inspired to the most trendy, such questions take on a new interest and urgency. And Graphic Style is the most ambitious and successful effort yet to answer them.
This large, striking graphic-design compendium distills the essences of 48 styles, from Victorian to Post-Modern. The text is brief yet cogent, setting the scene at the beginning of each chapter for the visual fireworks to come. The more than 700 carefully selected illustrations run the gamut from fine art to ephemera, from prints, posters, photo- graphs, and book illustrations to teapots, wine labels, and shopping bags. Like a piece in a jigsaw puzzle, each illustration fits closely with the others in its section to define and illuminate the character...
- GRAPHIC STYLE:
What does British Art Deco look like? Or Italian Art Nouveau? Or De Stijl, Dada, or Polish Late Modern? In today's world, bom- barded with a barrage of visual styles ranging from the traditionally inspired to the most trendy, such questions take on a new interest and urgency. And Graphic Style is the most ambitious and successful effort yet to answer them.
This large, striking graphic-design compendium distills the essences of 48 styles, from Victorian to Post-Modern. The text is brief yet cogent, setting the scene at the beginning of each chapter for the visual fireworks to come. The more than 700 carefully selected illustrations run the gamut from fine art to ephemera, from prints, posters, photo- graphs, and book illustrations to teapots, wine labels, and shopping bags. Like a piece in a jigsaw puzzle, each illustration fits closely with the others in its section to define and illuminate the character...
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