Object Details
- Description
- Book jacket design for Conservatism in America by Clinton Rossiter, published by Alfred A. Knopf. Front cover design features a white background with "CONSERVATISM / IN AMERICA" in black text at top. Below, a large brown square with author's name in white at the bottom. Short descriptive black text below the brown square. Blue rectangle at bottom containing award name given to book in white. Spine at left includes author's name in black at top, with a blue rectangle at center containing the title, printed vertically in white. The publisher name and logo are printed in black at bottom of spine. Right flap contains a description of the book and price (upper right) in black and "TOWARD A NEW AMERICAN CONSERVATISM" in blue along the top. Verso: Flap and back cover. Flap on left contains a biography of the author printed in black, underneath a reproduction of a black and white photograph of the author by Anneliese. Excerpt from the book printed in black on back cover on right side of verso.
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- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Herbert Bayer, (American, born Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985)
- Author
- Clinton Rossiter, American, 1917–1970
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, USA
- Date
- 1954
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 21.8 × 27.8 cm (8 9/16 × 10 15/16 in.)
- Verso: 21.8 × 24.5 cm (8 9/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
- Open: 52.3 × 21.8 cm (20 9/16 × 8 9/16 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Book cover
- Type
- Book cover
