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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. It is dated 1962 and 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.
It is credited Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors.
- 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, The Prepared Professional
- screenprint on paper.
- Gift of Marion S. Rand.
- 2002-11-11
- Poster, Friend? Or Foe?
- screenprint on metallic coated paper.
- Gift of Various Donors.
- 1981-29-153
Its dimensions are
21.5 × 29.4 cm (8 7/16 × 11 9/16 in.) Open: 21.5 × 54.1 cm (8 7/16 × 21 5/16 in.)
It is signed
Printed in black, on flap design, lower right: Typography, binding, and jacket design by Herbert Bayer
It is inscribed
Printed in black, verso, lower left: Printed in U.S.A.
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; 21.5 × 29.4 cm (8 7/16 × 11 9/16 in.) Open: 21.5 × 54.1 cm (8 7/16 × 21 5/16 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-264
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Herbert Bayer: Bauhaus Master.
