{"product_id":"e-mcknight-kauffer-design-9781851495207","title":"E. McKnight Kauffer: Design","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Brian Webb | Peyton Skipwith\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Acc Art Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Acc Art Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Graphic Arts - Advertising\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954) was the most celebrated graphic designer working in Britain in the twentieth century. Born in Montana, he left America before the first world war to travel throughout Europe absorbing the influences of the Cubists and the German poster artist Ludwig Hohlwein. At the onset of war he settled in London. Seeing himself as a painter, he allied himself with the London Group and the Vorticists. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe worked at Roger Fry's Omega Workshops with Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant and in 1915 was commissioned by Frank Pick, then the publicity manager at London Underground. This was the beginning of a client\/designer relationship that lasted throughout the 1920s and 30s ending only when Kauffer returned to New York in 1940. His posters, brilliantly colored and strikingly modern, struck London like a Cubist thunderbolt. Soon other clients, Jack Beddington at Shell, Sir Colin Anderson at the Orient Shipping line, the Daily Herald (the instantly recognizable \u003ci\u003eBirds in Flight\u003c\/i\u003e poster), and the Post Office were commissioning posters, brochures, book covers and illustrations. The V\u0026amp;A began collecting Kauffer's posters in 1915 and he was given a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1937. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eE McKnight Kauffer, Design\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e contains over 150 illustrations, many from original artworks, and work not previously reproduced. Brian Webb has provided descriptions and an introductory essay is written by Peyton Skipwith. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlso avaliable: \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eClaud Lovat Fraser\u003c\/i\u003e ISBN: 9781851496631 \u003ci\u003eGPO\u003c\/i\u003e ISBN: 9781851495962 \u003ci\u003ePeter Blake\u003c\/i\u003e ISBN: 9781851496181 \u003ci\u003eFHK Henrion\u003c\/i\u003e ISBN: 9781851496327 \u003ci\u003eDavid Gentleman\u003c\/i\u003e ISBN: 9781851495955 \u003ci\u003eDavid Mellor\u003c\/i\u003e ISBN: 9781851496037 \u003ci\u003eEdward Bawden and Eric Ravilious\u003c\/i\u003e ISBN: 9781851495009 \u003ci\u003eEl Lissitzky\u003c\/i\u003e ISBN: 9781851496198 \u003ci\u003eFestival of Britain 1951\u003c\/i\u003e ISBN: 9781851495337 \u003ci\u003eHarold Curwen \u0026amp; Oliver Simon: Curwen Press\u003c\/i\u003e ISBN: 9781851495719 \u003ci\u003eJan Le Witt and George Him\u003c\/i\u003e ISBN: 9781851495665 \u003ci\u003ePaul Nash and John Nash\u003c\/i\u003e ISBN: 9781851495191 \u003ci\u003eRodchenko\u003c\/i\u003e ISBN: 9781851495917 \u003ci\u003eAbram Games\u003c\/i\u003e ISBN: 9781851496778","brand":"Acc Art Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47586288861335,"sku":"9781851495207","price":1286.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781851495207.webp?v=1774963477","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/e-mcknight-kauffer-design-9781851495207","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}