Museum graphics - Rouard-Snowman, Margo

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"In the last decade museums have added big business and popular entertainment to their traditional role of patient scholarship. As their purpose has been redefined, their importance and prestige have been enhanced. Museum Graphics reveals how they and other arts organizations - festivals, temporary exhibitions, galleries - have fostered this trend by commissioning graphic designers to establish clear, compelling visual identities which communicate effectively with their various publics." "An essential tool for professional graphic artists, this volume is also extremely valuable for curators and staff of galleries and museums, and for local and civic authorities. In addition, it offers an intriguing insight into the disparate characters and aims of many of the foremost bodies in this unique sphere, where high culture meets the marketplace." "Museum Graphics contains fifty-nine projects from ten countries, carefully selected by Margo Rouard-Snowman, the eminent curator and graphic artist, to represent the most ...
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1992Uitgever: Thames and Hudson, New York, N.Y.192 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0500236356ISBN-13: 9780500236352

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