Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Cover design for "Politics: Who Gets What, When, How" by Harold Lasswell. Green background printed over with four black alternating curved shapes progressing vertically. Similarly, next to these four circles are vertically arranged along the right side of the cover containing the words WHO, WHAT, WHEN and HOW. Back cover contains printed description of book and critical reviews. Two shapes in black and white arranged vertically at lower left of back cover form an exclamation point.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Elaine Lustig Cohen, American, 1927–2016
- Client
- Meridian Books, New York, New York, USA
- Author
- Harold Lasswell, American, 1902–1978
- Date
- 1958
- Credit Line
- Gift of Tamar Cohen and Dave Slatoff
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 18.6 x 23.4 cm (7 5/16 x 9 3/16 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Book cover
- Type
- Book cover
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