Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life
Design Writing Research, New York, New York, 1996
Description
Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life was published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
When is a still life no longer a still life? This is one of the questions posed in the catalogue. In Domenico Gnoli’s painting Without a Still Life (1966), the empty tabletop serves as the perfect setting for a typographic still life. The painting becomes a tablula rasa where the words “still life” are no longer words but are transformed into objects with the metallic sheen of candlesticks or flatware.
Collections:
50 Books | 50 Covers of 1996
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book cover
Credits
- Design firm
- Design Writing Research
- Jacket designer
- J. Abbott Miller
- Author
- Margit Rowell
- Typefaces
- Mrs Eaves, Grotesque (Monotype)
- Printer
- Amilcare Pizzi
- Publisher/client
- The Museum of Modern Art
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