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Book Cover, The Heretics

This is a Book cover. It was designed by Herbert Bayer and written by Walter Nigg and published by Alfred A. Knopf. We acquired it in 2016. Its medium is offset lithograph on white wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

Booklet for the Whitney Museum of American Art. Both front and back covers have a design of a cube broken down into sections of black, red and two sections of blue. Inside is a description of the museum and its floor plan, images and text throughout.

Booklet, A Program for the New Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY,...
lithograph on off-white shiny wove paper.
Gift of Tamar Cohen and Dave Slatoff.
1993-31-128-a

Poster in black depicting two targets in upper section in white, blue and red. The left target contains thirteen dots (bullet holes) in black and gray near the bull’s eye and around the target; right target contains one black dot at the bull’s eye. Lower section composed of two columns of text in gray. Left column: The / Prepared / Professional; below, ten lines of text describing topics covered during the conference; right column: International / Design Conference / in Aspen / June 13–18, ’82; below, eleven lines of text describing registration fees, lodging and other information.

Poster, The Prepared Professional, 1982
screenprint on paper.
Gift of Marion S. Rand.
2002-11-11

Smithsonian poster featuring silhouettes of military aircraft, with descriptions of each below.

Poster, Friend? Or Foe?, 1976
screenprint on metallic coated paper.
Gift of Various Donors.
1981-29-153

Cite this object as

Book Cover, The Heretics; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); offset lithograph on white wove paper; 2016-54-264

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2ywPpP/
Accession Number 2016-54-264
Object ID 1024497489