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Richard Hollis Designs for the Whitechapel

Richard Hollis Designs for the Whitechapel

A Graphic Designer and an Art Gallery at Work in Twentieth-Century London

by Christopher Wilson
Paperback
Publication Date: 07/09/2017

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Richard Hollis has been called the graphic designer's designer. Best known as the author of the classic Graphic Design: A Concise History (1994), it is his six decades of design work that is currently undergoing a long overdue critical reevaluation. In Richard Hollis Designs for the Whitechapel, author Christopher Wilson focuses on the visual identity Hollis developed during the 1970s and 80s for London's then up-and-coming Whitechapel Art Gallery. Working closely with curators and artists, Hollis designed a series of conceptually rigorous posters, brochures, and catalogs for pioneering exhibitions by artists such as Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Joseph Cornell, Philip Guston, and Frida Kahlo. This timely collection presents all of Hollis's masterpieces of understatement, alongwith critical essays and interviews.
ISBN:
9780907259497
9780907259497
Category:
Graphic design
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
07-09-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Hyphen Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
400
Dimensions (mm):
240x170mm
Weight:
0.01kg
Christopher Wilson

Christopher Wilson is the author of novels including Gallimauf's Gospel, Baa, Blueglass, Mischief, Fou, The Wurd, The Ballad of Lee Cotton and Nookie. His work has been translated into several languages, adapted for the stage, longlisted for the Booker Prize, and twice shortlisted for the Whitbread Fiction Prize.

Wilson completed a published PhD on the psychology of humour at LSE, worked as a research psychologist at UCL, The London Hospital and The Arts Council, and lectured for ten years at Goldsmiths' College, London University. He has taught creative writing in prisons, at university and for The Arvon Foundation.

Wilson has also established a couple of new imprints - Lollapalooza and MojoBooks - as e-publishers of fiction, poetry and books on cultural studies and body-politics. He lives in North London.

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