Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Book jacket design for "The Glass Bees," written by Ernst Jünger. On white ground, front cover at right features title in upper third of composition printed in blue, green, and red text. Author's name in blue text below. At lower composition, a photographic illustration of a modern sculpture made up of a composite of brightly colored machine parts (Twin Bloom--R.O.C.I. Tibet, 1985, by Robert Rauschenberg). Back cover at left includes a printed book synopsis at top, critical reviews, and publication information. Spine: at top, author and title printed vertically. At bottom is publisher's name and colophon (logo).
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Rosemarie Turk, probably American, active late-20th and early-21st century
- Office of
- Drenttel Doyle Partners, New York, New York, USA
- Artist
- Robert Rauschenberg, American, 1925–2008
- Author
- Ernst Jünger, German, 1895 - 1998
- Publisher
- Noonday Press, New York, New York, USA
- Date
- 1986–93
- Credit Line
- Gift of Steven Heller
- Medium
- Lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 20.5 × 28.4 cm (8 1/16 × 11 3/16 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Book cover
- Type
- Book cover
