arh346: History of Graphic Design (and more)

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

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"The Absinthe Drinker" -- Degas
Daguerreotype erotica

Jacques Moulin, Two Nudes Standing , 185 (from an exhibition @ Luminous Lint ) Johan Schwarzer, early Austrian erotic movie, 1906 ...
Clamor and Zero Hero

Thursday we had the opportunity to see two very different shows: CLAMOR by Allora & Calzadilla , and Zero Hero by John Bock . Silvia&#...
The Saturday Evening Post

Otto von Bismarck, by George Gibbs From 1821 to 1969 The Saturday Evening Post published current events articles, editorials, human int...
German Modern standardization: Deutscher Werkbund

Deutscher Werkbund was founded in 1907 in Munich as a response to widely held worries that Germany’s rapid modernization was coming at...
cuban revolutionary posters (1960's-1970's)

May Day. All with Fidel on the Square of the Revolution , CTC, 1964 Even as revolutions have lost the appeal they used to have in the...
World War II Propaganda (& Big Brother in between)
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Vito Acconci's "Trademarks" (1970). Whilst sitting in front of a camera Acconci performed a series of contorted poses and bit...
BAUHAUS, works

Walter Gropius , Dessau Bauhaus Building, (1926) Josef Albers , Homage to the Square (1965) László Moholy-Nagy, Photogram ...
William Pickering's "The Elements of Euclid"

William Pickering's cover from The Elements of Euclid (1847). Pickering’s most notable publications include Chaucer’s Canterbury Tale...

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