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The Aspen Music Festival 1980, 31st Season

Object Details

Description
Aspen Music Festival program booklet for 1980. Printed in thin, black text, upper left of front cover: The Aspen / Music Festival 1980; lower left: 31st Season. Abstract image appears between upper and lower text containing a blue and white rectangle with a red, orange, and yellow rectangle inside. The colors inside the rectangles gradually fade into each other. Interior pages include a program for an evening of chamber music by Darius Milhaud on the left and a bio and black and white photographic image of Milhaud on the right. An insert is tucked inside the program on a strip of white paper, with black printed text about the Kronos Quartet being unable to appear. Verso: Color advertisement for The Crystal Palace featuring women in red and white striped uniforms.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Designer
Herbert Bayer, (American, born Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985)
Client
The Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colorado, USA
Date
1980
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors
Medium
Offset lithograph on white wove paper, folded
Dimensions
27.6 × 21.2 cm (10 7/8 × 8 3/8 in.)
Open: 27.6 × 42.5 cm (10 7/8 × 16 3/4 in.)
Type
graphic design
Object Name
Booklet
Type
Booklet
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