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1957

  • Work on this object began.

1993

  • We acquired this object.

2016

2025

  • You found it!

Book Cover, Film Form and The Film Sense

This is a Book cover. It was designed by Elaine Lustig Cohen. It is dated 1957 and we acquired it in 1993. Its medium is lithograph on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Tamar Cohen. It is credited Gift of Tamar Cohen and Dave Slatoff.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 20.3 × 30 cm (8 in. × 11 13/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Printed in red, upper right: FILM FORM; in blue; lower left: THE FILM SENSE; in black, left center: two complete and / unabridged works by; in black, right center: Sergei / Eisenstein

Cite this object as

Book Cover, Film Form and The Film Sense; Designed by Elaine Lustig Cohen (American, 1927–2016); lithograph on paper; H x W: 20.3 × 30 cm (8 in. × 11 13/16 in.); Gift of Tamar Cohen and Dave Slatoff; 1993-31-26

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