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1978	Work on this object began.
1980	We acquired this object.
2015	We photographed this object.
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Poster, Art About Art

This is a Poster. It was designed by Roy Lichtenstein and published by Whitney Museum of American Art. It is dated 1978 and we acquired it in 1980. Its medium is offset lithograph on white wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

Front of a white horizontal book jacket cover with a large black and white photomontage of a close-up of an eye (with iris filled with blue) cut out into a heart shape, superimposed into the palm of an individual's right hand, fingers pointing towards the left and relaxed upturned thumb. Above the thumb 'herbert' in sans serif text, followed by 'bayer' in larger text. Similar text and format of 'herbert bayer' set vertically in the left-hand corner inside a blue strip that borders the left edge. Centered along the bottom edge, in small sans-serif blue text is the title:'visual communication / architecture / painting'. To the right of the hand, a large column of the book description text fills the length of the right side. Verso: the book description text continues on white paper, underneath a black and white portrait of Herbert Bayer, set into a column on the left. Four small blue circles mark the corners of the large square negative space on the right.

Book Cover, Herbert Bayer: Visual Communication, Architecture, Planning
offset lithograph on glossy white paper.
Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A.....
2016-54-220

It is inscribed

Printed in black printed text, off-white label, lower center right: KÜNSTLERPLAKATE aus den USA / Title / 11.März – 30.April 1980 / Date / donnerstags geschlossen / Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden / Kupferstich-Kabinett Albertinum / 11-25-12 2,2 T. IG 71-27-80; in black, lower margin: Nach: Roy Lichtenstein, Art about Art. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1978-Siebdruck Signograph Leipzig III/18/43-JG 71/23/80

Cite this object as

Poster, Art About Art; Designed by Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923 - 1997); Published by Whitney Museum of American Art (United States); offset lithograph on white wove paper; 1980-27-3

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2CQN8/
Accession Number 1980-27-3
Object ID 18504675