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Book, Brazil Builds: Architecture New and Old 1652-1942
This is a Book. It was designed by E. McKnight Kauffer and featuring artwork by G. E. Kidder Smith and published by The Museum of Modern Art.
This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from The Museum of Modern Art as part of Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer.
In the 1940s, Kauffer became the most exhibited and collected commercial artist at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. His friend Monroe Wheeler, head of the museum’s Exhibitions and Publications Department, hired Kauffer to design many of the museum’s publicity materials and publications. Wheeler endorsed the use of unusual cover designs to “catch the customer’s eye and arouse his interest or curiosity.”
It is credited The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Publications Archive. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York.
Its dimensions are
H x W: 28.3 × 21 cm (11 1/8 × 8 1/4 in.)
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer.
