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Author Chantry, Art, 1954- author.

Title Art Chantry speaks : a heretic's history of 20th century graphic design / Art Chantry ; edited by Monica René Rochester
Published Port Townsend, WA : Feral House, [2015]

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Contents AUTHOR'S FOREWORD: Context Is Everything -- About the Title of the Book -- SECTION ONE: The Language of Design -- The Secret Brotherhood of Graphic Design -- "Design Diversity" and the Con -- 20th-Century American Industrial Graphic Design -- Typography as Image -- Manufactured Style: From Victoriana to Art Deco -- Modernism Is Just Another Retro Style -- Graphique Moderne -- God Told Me To -- Cheesecake Clip -- Hallmark Psychedelia -- 1960s Design Reality -- The Acrimonious History of the Happy Face -- The Anonymity of Manufactured Art -- Alfred E. Neuman is MAD -- Help! A Genius Cluster -- Grade School Indoctrination -- The Fine Art of Marketing Lowbrow -- A High Huh? Factor: Japanese Graphic Design -- Chaos as Design Theory -- SECTION TWO: Designers and Artists -- Ross F. George: Typographic Man of Mystery -- Saint Paul -- Norman Rockwell and Corporate Sentimentality -- Alvin Lusting: A Nod Is as Good as a Wink to a Blind Horse -- Albert Hurter: Disney's Crazy Uncle in the Attic -- William Golden: Grans Master of Corporate Design -- A.M. Cassandre's Bazaar Surrealism -- Richard M. Powers Showed Us What Science Fiction Looks LIke -- Harry Chester, King of Monster Type -- Herb Lubalin: If You Can't Design in B & W, You Can't Design -- Ivan Chermayeff and BJ -- Robert Massin: Thinking Outside the Condom Box -- Peter Max and the Cult of Fake Psychedelia -- Cal Schenel CleansYou! Cleans & Thrills You! -- John Van Hamersveld and Los Angeles Psych -- Sister Corita Kent -- Mo Lebowitz's Antique Press -- Jim Phillips: Skate or Design -- "Mouse" -- Moscoso -- Drella, Commercial Artist -- Genesis P-Orridge: No Future at the Death Factory -- SECTION THREE: Tools of the Trade, Forgotten Processes, and Obsolete Objects -- Linotype -- The Lost Art of the Print Process -- The Printer's Drill -- The Haberule -- Printing Cuts
Labelmaker: Punk Typography 101 -- Stencil Lettering as Art -- The French Curve -- Pocket Pal -- Punch Tape -- Thermography -- Niche Market Packaging -- Matchbook: A Tiny Design Canvas -- AFTERWORD: The Moist Towlette -- INDEX -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS/COLOPHON
Summary Art Chantry: art is a graphic designer most often associated with the logos, posters and album art he created for countless punk, grunge and rock bands and their labels. His work has been exhibited at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Museum of Modern Art, Seattle Art Museum, the Smithsonian and the Louvre. Monica Ren©♭ Rochester: Born and raised in South Carolina before becoming a West Coast Convert in the 90's, Monica has worked and played in the music and book industries for the past 20+ years, while keeping a hand (and scissors!) in the fine arts field as a collagist
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Subject Chantry, Art, 1954-
SUBJECT Chantry, Art, 1954- fast
Subject Graphic arts -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Subculture -- Northwest, Pacific
ART -- Techniques -- Drawing.
Graphic arts
Subculture
Pacific Northwest
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Rochester, Monica René, editor
ISBN 9781627310130
1627310134
1627310096
9781627310093