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Buy Milton Glaser's book Art is Work
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“Art is Work: Milton Glaser Retrospective” is the largest
retrospective show ever held in New York of the work of the
American graphic designer Milton Glaser. The show coincides with
the publication of Glaser's eponymous book, Art is Work, a
comprehensive survey of his work in the 25 years since the
publication of his classic Milton Glaser Graphic
Design.
One of the most influential and unusual figures in the history
of graphic design, Glaser has been producing memorable images and
objects for more than four decades. From the famous Bob Dylan
poster of 1967 and the universally imitated “I Love NY” logo up to
the cutting-edge design of his new websites and his masterful
illustrations for Dante's Purgatory, Glaser has created some of the
most powerful and enduring visual art of our time.
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extraordinary variety of subject matter and style in the show
demonstrates why Glaser has been called “the Picasso of the graphic
arts field.” It includes his posters, magazine and newspaper
designs, interior designs, corporate logos, record albums, magazine
illustrations and typography, as well as watercolors, drawings,
prints and illustrated books, toys, textiles, jewelry and home
furnishings.
Among the more unusual pieces in the show are the erotic
drawings the designer created for a French edition of Boris Vian's
novels, a wood-and-glass sculptural tribute to Glaser's teacher,
Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964) and a set of ingeniously modular
children's building blocks.
The show will also feature rare examples of illustrated books
Glaser conceived for European publishers that have never been shown
in this country, including versions of Charles Baudelaire's Les
Fleurs du Mal and Guillaume Appolinaire's Oeuvres
Poetiques and Oeuvres en Prose.
Born in 1929, Milton Glaser was educated at the High School of
Music and Art and the Cooper Union in New York, and via a Fulbright
Scholarship, the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, Italy. He
co-founded the seminal Pushpin Studios in 1954, founded New
York magazine with Clay Felker in 1968, established Milton
Glaser, Inc. in 1974, and teamed with Walter Bernard in 1983 to
form the publication design firm WBMG. Milton Glaser, Inc. is a
multidisciplinary design company, specializing in corporate
identity, logos and trademarks, brochures, packaging, interiors,
exhibitions, posters and websites.
Glaser was the 1972 recipient of the AIGA medal, the highest
honor given to a graphic designer in this country, and is the only
graphic artist ever to have had one-man shows at both the Centre
Gorges Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New
York.
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