![A flattened horizontal printed black book cover/jacket design with a thin white border and sans serif font text. Two large blue rounded triangular forms extend from the lower left and right borders to point up towards each other to the center. The triangular form on the left contains lines of the book summary text, written in black, whereas the right one contains the book's title: 'psychoanalytic / psychiatry' in much larger and thicker black font. Along the center: 'A. A. Brill [horizontal line] lectures on psychoanalytic psychiatry' is printed vertically along the center in white. On the right side/front cover two orange and white triangular forms point towards the blue one, each containing black text; top is orange: 'A. A. Brill, m.d.'; bottom is white: originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Blue, white and orange filled circles of varying small sizes are scattered above and below the blue triangular forms, at the bottom center/spine, and the bottom center-right or lower-left corner of the front cover. Each circle contains additional text: 'a VINTAGE book', 'lectures on ', 'VINTAGE', 'K11', '95¢'. 'Herbert Bayer' is hand signed in white in the lower left-hand corner.]( https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/347956_a030bd8ad194f490_b.jpg
"Book Cover, Lectures on Psychoanalytic Psychiatry, 1955")
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Book Cover, Lectures on Psychoanalytic Psychiatry, 1955
This is a Book cover. It was written by A. A. Brill and designed by Herbert Bayer and published by Alfred A. Knopf and Vintage Books. It is dated 1955 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is offset lithograph on thick cream paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
It is credited Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors.
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Its dimensions are
18.5 × 23.8 cm (7 5/16 × 9 3/8 in.)
It is signed
Printed in white ink, lower left corner: herbert bayer
Cite this object as
Book Cover, Lectures on Psychoanalytic Psychiatry, 1955; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); Written by A. A. Brill (Austrian, active USA, 1874–1948); Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Vintage Books; offset lithograph on thick cream paper; 18.5 × 23.8 cm (7 5/16 × 9 3/8 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-256
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Herbert Bayer: Bauhaus Master.
