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The Old Moderns

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@ Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, USA Denis Donoghue

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Research in ProgressBook jacket for The Old Moderns, by Denis Donoghue, published by Alfred A. Knopf. On front cover, a selection of aligned typographical rules bordered in rectangles made up of further rule patterns. Text above, in black: THE OLD; in black script: Moderns; below: ESSAYS ON / LITERATURE AND THEORY; at bottom margin: DENIS DONOGHUE; back cover shows the forms from the front broken free from their rigid patterns and scattered in diagonals across the lower left, drawing attention to similarity between the rule patterns and barcode. At left edge, photoillustration of author.
Format:
Offset Lithograph On Paper
Rights:
Gift of Chip Kidd
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