David King: Designer, Activist, Visual Historian - Couverture rigide

Poynor, Rick

 
9780300250107: David King: Designer, Activist, Visual Historian
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 030025010X ISBN 13 : 9780300250107
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Exploring an unjustly overlooked figure in 20th-century British visual culture. This book offers a comprehensive overview to the work and legacy of David King (1943-2016), whose fascinating career bridged journalism, graphic design, photography, and collecting. King launched his career at Britain's Sunday Times Magazine in the 1960s, starting as a designer and later branching out into image-led journalism. He developed a particular interest in revolutionary Russia and began amassing a collection of graphic art and photographs-ultimately accumulating around 250,000 images that he shared with news outlets. Throughout his life, King blended political activism with his graphic design work, creating anti-Apartheid and anti-Nazi posters, covers for books on Communist history, album artwork for The Who and Jimi Hendrix, catalogues on Russian art and society for the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, and typographic covers for the left-wing magazine City Limits. This well-researched and finely illustrated publication ties together King's accomplishments as a visual historian, artist, journalist, and activist.

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À propos de l?auteur

Rick Poynor is professor of design and visual culture at the University of Reading.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
030025010X
ISBN 13 
9780300250107
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
240
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Personne responsable
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