The origins of graphic design in America, 1870-1920

The origins of graphic design in America, 1870-1920 / Ellen Mazur Thomson.

"By the time the phrase 'graphic design' first appeared in print in 1922, design professionals in America had already created a discipline combining visual art with mass communication. In this book, Ellen Mazur Thomson examines for the first time the early development of the graphic d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thomson, Ellen Mazur (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1997]
Subjects:
Graphic arts > United States > History.
Commercial art > United States > History.
Commercial art
Graphic arts
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Making Ideas Visible
  • Contexts and Connections
  • The Trade Journals
  • Career Transformations
  • Professionalization
  • The Great Divide
  • Women in Graphic Design History
  • At the End of the 'Mechanical Revolution'
  • Appendix A: Periodicals of Importance in American Graphic Design, 1852-1920
  • Appendix B: 'New Kind of Printing Calls for New Design.'

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