Graphic Design
A Critical Introduction - Reproduction and Representation Since 1800
Published on 19. December 1996
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-7190-4466-3 (ISBN)
Description
This critical survey of the trends and key issues involved in graphic design over the last 200 years provides an introduction to this ever-changing subject. The international development of magazine, advertising and poster design is traced within a chronological framework from the illustrated journalism of the 19th century, to graphic images produced by celebrated artists such as Daumier and Toulouse Lautrec, to late-20th century alternative practices: pop, sub and counter-cultural graphics and the well-known work of Neville Brody. In the process of examining the relationship between word and image in the public domain, the authors cover issues of gender, class, race, hegemony and incorporation.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
80 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 170 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-4466-3 (9780719044663)
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Content
A medium for the masses I - the popular illustrated weekly and the new reading public in the 19th century; censorship and symbolism - the politics of caricature and satire in France and England during the 19th century; fin-de-siecle poster design - objectifying national style, pleasure and gender; looking right and left - graphic propaganda in Britain after the First World War; between utopianism and commerce - modernist graphic design; a medium for the masses II - modernism and documentary in photojournalism; from pop to protest - graphic design and youth culture in Britain in the 1960s; in the empire of signs - ideology, mythology and pleasure in advertising; graphic design in a postmodern context - the beginning and the end?