Classic Book Jackets

The Design Legacy of George Salter

Thomas S. Hansen

200 pages, parution le 25/10/2004

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Résumé

It's said that you can't judge a book by its cover. George Salter, a legendary figure in the field of book design, never subscribed to this belief. For more than forty years, his beautifully drawn and lettered covers served as elegant windows onto the works of such revered authors as Albert Camus, John Dos Passos, Jack London, and Thomas Mann. Salter had the rare ability to reduce the illustrated dust jacket-a new part of the book package-to its essential elements. He could visually evoke-with typography, calligraphy, and pictorial imagery-the contents of any given book.

Salter's life and work bridged two continents and cultures, and spanned the severest political turmoil of the 20th century. Through a tumultuous life, nothing halted his tireless and brilliant design work. Classic Book Jackets tells Salter's story and describes the innovative design thinking he brought to his design students (including his designation of seven different jacket types that are still valid today). It includes more than 200 reproductions of his finest works, and a complete catalog of his jackets, designs, layouts, and lettering jobs for the book trade. Thomas Hansen is Professor of German Language at Wellesley College and lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Sommaire

George Salter's Berlin Years
From Berlin to New York: the 1930s and 1940s
Designs of the 1950s and 1960s
Plates

Salter's Designs for the German book market, 1922,1934
Salter's Designs for the Americanan book market, 1934,1967

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Princeton Architectural Press
Auteur(s)	Thomas S. Hansen
Parution	25/10/2004
Nb. de pages	200
Format	21 x 24,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	700g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9781568984919
ISBN13	978-1-56898-491-9