THE ENDURING LEGACY OF WEIMAR

This book focuses on the pivotal years of 19191933 to show how fifty artists redefined the field and helped create modern graphic d esign. Alston Purvis provides a concise and engaging overview of the dawn of modern graphic design and the artistic possibilities th at were laid bare in a seismically shifting Europe. He explores how a variety of burgeoning and established movements contributed to the innovations of graphic design such as the German Dadaists, the Bauhaus School, and the European avant-garde artists.