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Witness to the Future, by Klaus Rifbjerg

Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Book cover in multiple colors. Front cover: black and white text: KLAUS RIFBJERG / WITNESS / TO THE / FUTURE / Translated from the Danish by Steve Murray; a young boy running amidst a stack of green televisions, a man with a gun, street signs, etc. On back cover: text in black; a pixelated photograph of the atom bomb with silhouettes of planes flying by.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Designer
Art Chantry, American, b. 1954
Date
1987
Credit Line
Gift of Art Chantry
Medium
Lithograph on thin board
Dimensions
21.5 x 28.9 cm (8 7/16 x 11 3/8 in.)
Type
graphic design
Object Name
Book cover
Type
Book cover
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