IMAGES OF AN ERA: THE AMERICAN POSTER 1945-75.
Smithsonian Institution, Derek Birdsall [Designer]
Smithsonian Institution: IMAGES OF AN ERA: THE AMERICAN POSTER 1945-75. Washington, DC: National Collection of Fine Arts, distributed by the MIT Press, 1975. First edition. Square quarto. Black paper wrappers. Printed dust jacket. Screen-printed acetate sleeve. Unpaginated. 257 color poster examples. Jacket features Andy Warhol's classic Lincoln Center Film Festival poster. Textblock edges lightly dusted. Acetate sleeve worn along top edge with a couple of chips and closed tears. MIT Press price and distribution sheet laid in. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Book design by Derek Birdsall. A superior copy of this easily-abused volume: a very good copy in very good dust jacket and acetate sleeve.
10 x 10 softcover cover book with 257 gorgeous full-color plates, representing the best of American postwar poster design. A very comprehensive, excellent volume on 20th-century Graphic Design history.
The following artists are represented with color poster reproductions: Primo Angeli, Richard Avedon, Saul Bass, Herbert Bayer, Joseph Binder, Ivan Chermayeff, Seymour Chwast, Christo, Tom Daly, Paul Davis, Jim Dine, Milton Glaser, David Lance Goines, Rick Griffin, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, E. McKnight Kauffer, Alton Kelley, Roy Lichtenstein, Leo Lionni, Herbert Matter, Peter Max, Victor Moscoso, Stanley Mouse, Erik Nitsche, Georgia O’Keefe, Claes Oldenburg, Paul Rand, Robert Rauschenburg, Ed Ruscha, Ben Shahn, Saul Steinberg, Frank Stella, George Tscherny, Tomi Ungerer,Andy Warhol, Wes Wilson and many others.