Iron Fists



Steven Heller

6/2008
HELLER, STEVEN.



Bestell-Nr: 1417341

EUR 75,00  in den Warenkorb

This is the first illustrated survey of the propaganda art, graphics, and artifacts created by the totalitarian governments of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, the USSR, and Communist China. The iconography produced by these regimes is universally recognized as their "brands": the swastika and aggressive typography of Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's streamlined Futurist posters and stylish Black Shirt uniforms, the stolid Social Realism of Stalin's USSR, and Mao's Little Red Book and kitschy ceramic figurines from the Cultural Revolution.Written by the eminent designer and design historian Steven Heller, who has long collected two and three-dimensional examples from this period, "Iron Fists" focuses on graphic materials such as typefaces, logos, posters, advertisements, children's books, flags, and medals. As Heller explains, Mussolini fancied himself an art director and the Nazis had a sophisticated graphic program, featuring Hitler as 'logo,' that is remarkably similar to modern corporate identity systems.

Titel zum Thema:
Ag-Werbung  China, Kunst; Grafik/Zeichnung  Drittes Reich, Kunst; Graphik/Zeichnung  Faschismus (Italien)  Faschismus (Italien 1922-1945)  Graphik  Italien, Kunst; Graphik/Zeichnung  Nationalsozialismus (Ideologie)  Ostblock, Kunst; Graphik/Zeichnung  Propaganda  Sowjetunion, Kunst; Graphik/Zeichnung  Totalitarismus