E. McKnight Kauffer : the artist in advertising /

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Imprint:	New York, NY : Rizzoli Electa : Cooper Hewitt, 2020. ©2020
Description:	275 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 30 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Kauffer, E. McKnight -- (Edward McKnight), -- 1890-1954 -- Exhibitions. Kauffer, E. McKnight -- (Edward McKnight), -- 1890-1954. Design -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. Commercial art -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. Commercial art. Design. Exhibition catalogs.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12453874

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Other title:	Underground modernist, E. McKnight Kauffer.
Other authors / contributors:	Condell, Caitlin, editor. Orr, Emily Marshall, editor. Cooper-Hewitt Museum, host institution.
ISBN:	0847867749 9780847867745
Notes:	Published in conjunction with the exhibition Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer, held at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York. Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-269) and index.
Summary:	E. McKnight Kauffer (American, 1890-1954) transformed the field of graphic design between the wars. He drew upon the emerging visual languages of Cubism, Vorticism, and Surrealism to create a modern graphic style that shaped the development of commercial art. Through collaborations with his avant-garde peers in art, literature, and design, including the Bloomsbury Group, Marion Dorn, T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Aldous Huxley, and Man Ray, Kauffer expanded the scope and impact of his field. This publication is the first to address the full range of Kauffer's career, from designs for major clients including the London transport system, Random House, American Airlines, and Shell, as well as Allied propaganda posters during World War II to book covers, rugs, costumes, and stage sets. An interdisciplinary group of authors offer critical perspectives on the cultural context of Kauffer's work, bringing new attention to the designer's depictions of race, gender, and global politics.

Table of Contents:

Rebel artist / Caitlin Condell
The Underground's alchemist of the modern / Teri J. Edelstein
Illustration as commentary : modernizing the classics / Julie Pastor
Fear, sex, maternity, snobbism : Kauffer and the modern woman / Aidan O'Connor
Setting the modern stage / Kristina Parsons
Equipping and exhibiting the modern interior / Emily M. Orr
Educative publicity : posters for the government / Caroline O'Connell
Illustrating race : Kauffer and the African American connection in literature / James Smalls
Kauffer and the Museum of Modern Art, New York / Juliet Kinchin
Design here is living : Marion Dorn in New York / Kimberly Randall
A parable of uncompromise : Kauffer in New York / Steven Heller
Chronology / Taryn Clary.

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