The magazine cover provides a snapshot of aesthetics, politics, and trends. Presents a survey of British, American, and European magazine and periodical cover designs from the late 19th century to the present day. Structured thematically, with each chapter covering a specific genre of magazine.
The art of art and design magazines – art nouveau, avant-garde magazines 1920-1960, the modern movement in graphic design, 1920s, modernism in postwar America, European postwar design; “Ark” (RCA magazine), “Opus” (France, 1960s), graphic press today; art magazines today; the art of magazine illustrations – satire – late 19th to early 20th century, illustrated good taste (“Radio Times” etc.), “Fortune” (US), “Saturday Evening Post” (US), “New Yorker” (US), sci-fi pulps, everyday experts (DIY and popular science, 1930s to 1950s), “Private Eye” (UK), “Ti I Ja” (Poland); covering the world – revolutionary magazines, photojournalism in Europe, John Heartfield and the workers’ “Illustrated Review”, a social eye – “Picture Post”, photojournalism in the USA – “Life”, “Ebony” (USA), “National Geographic” (US), the Sunday supplements (UK), covering Vietnam, the underground press, tales of New York and London (“Time Out” and “New York”), “Spare Rib”, “Wired”, “Colors” (various), global protest (“Adbusters” etc); celebrity and popularculture – Hollywood covered, crime pupls, boxing magazines, teen readers, 1960s “Fabulous”, ” Flip, “16” etc), music broadsheets (“NME”, “Sounds”), punk fanzines (UK and US); “The Face” (UK); “Raygun” (US); “Interview” (US); fashion and lifestyle – “Ladies Home Journal” (US), “Vogue” between the wars, Alexei Brodovitch, art director (“Harper’s Bazaar”, “Portfolio”), Alexander Lieberman’s “Vogue”; “Seventeen” (US), “Twen” (Germany), “Town” (UK), “iD” (UK), the style press today (“Dazed and Confused”, “UK”, “Purple”, “France” etc).