Front Cover: Great Book Jackets and Cover Design - Couverture souple

Powers, Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1845332423 ISBN 13 : 9781845332426

Editeur : Mitchell Beazley, 2004

Synopsis

Rare book

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

You can't judge a book by its cover...but some covers simply speak for themselves. The most influential book jacket designs from throughout the 20th century are on display, and the fascinating images track their evolution from throwaway utilitarian "dust jackets" into a powerful modern art form. Three hundred hardcover and paperback book jackets appear in full color, including many from rare first editions seldom seen outside a serious collector's library. Accompanying analysis commemorates the contributions of top European and American artists like Victor Gollancz, Paul Rand, and Barnett Freedman; explains how cover art styles helped launch such publishing brands as Penguin and Bloomsbury; and explores the impact of today's digitally designed covers.

Biographie de l'auteur

Dr Alan Powers writes and lectures on architecture and applied art. He is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Greenwich School of Architecture and Landscape, and is actively involved in the Twentieth Century Society. He is the author of Living with Books and Living with Pictures, and contributed to the best-selling Elements of Design (Mitchell Beazley 1991). Dr Powers frequently contributes to magazines including, Country Life, Crafts and The Spectator. In 1999 he was guestcurator of the exhibition on British Modernism of the 1930s at the Design Museum, London. He lives in London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mitchell Beazley
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1845332423
• ISBN 13: 9781845332426
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 128