Saul Bass : a life in film & design / Jennifer Bass & Pat Kirkham.

By:

Bass, Jennifer

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Laurence King, 2011.Description: xv, 423 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 29 cmISBN:

9781856697521 (hbk.)
1856697525 (hbk.)

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DDC classification:

741.6092 BAS

Contents:

Foreword / Martin Scorsese -- Preface / Pat Kirkham, Jennifer Bass -- Introducing Saul Bass ... -- From the beginning -- Renaissance designer -- Reinventing movie titles -- Beginnings, middles & ends -- The wheel comes full circle -- Corporate identity -- Personal handwriting.

Summary: This is the first book to be published on one of the greatest American designers of the 20th century, who was as famous for his work in film as for his corporate identity and graphic work. Saul Bass (1920-1996) created some of the most compelling images of American postwar visual culture. Having extended the remit of graphic design to include film titles, he went on to transform the genre. His best-known works include a series of unforgettable posters and title sequences for films such as Alfred Hitchcock\'s Vertigo and Otto Preminger\'s The Man with the Golden Arm and Anatomy of a Murder. He also created some of the most famous logos and corporate identity campaigns of the century, including those for major companies such as AT & T, Quaker Oats, United Airlines and Minolta--Publisher\'s web site.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Clonmel Library Main Collection	741.6092 BAS (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Available		39002100636142
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	741.6092 BAS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100469676

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This is the first book to be published on one of the greatest American designers of the 20th Century, who was as famous for his work in film as for his corporate identity and graphic work. With more than 1,400 illustrations, many of them never published before and written by the leading design historian Pat Kirkham, this is the definitive study that design and film enthusiasts have been eagerly anticipating. Saul Bass (1920-1996) created some of the most compelling images of American post-war visual culture. Having extended the remit of graphic design to include film titles, he went on to transform the genre. His best known works include a series of unforgettable posters and title sequences for films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and Otto Preminger's The Man With The Golden Arm and Anatomy of a Murder. He also created some of the most famous logos and corporate identity campaigns of the century, including those for major companies such as AT&T, Quaker Oats, United Airlines and Minolta. His wife and collaborator, Elaine, joined the Bass office in the late 1950s. Together they created an impressive series of award-winning short films, including the Oscar-winning Why Man Creates, as well as an equally impressive series of film titles, ranging from Stanley Kubrick s Spartacus in the early 1960s to Martin Scorsese s Cape Fear and Casino in the 1990s. Designed by Jennifer Bass, Saul Bass's daughter and written by distinguished design historian Pat Kirkham who knew Saul Bass personally, this book is full of images from the Bass archive, providing an in depth account of one of the leading graphic artists of the 20th century.

Includes a foreword by Martin Scorsese.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-413) and index.

This is the first book to be published on one of the greatest American designers of the 20th century, who was as famous for his work in film as for his corporate identity and graphic work. Saul Bass (1920-1996) created some of the most compelling images of American postwar visual culture. Having extended the remit of graphic design to include film titles, he went on to transform the genre. His best-known works include a series of unforgettable posters and title sequences for films such as Alfred Hitchcock\'s Vertigo and Otto Preminger\'s The Man with the Golden Arm and Anatomy of a Murder. He also created some of the most famous logos and corporate identity campaigns of the century, including those for major companies such as AT & T, Quaker Oats, United Airlines and Minolta--Publisher\'s web site.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Pat Kirkham is Professor in the History of Design, Decorative Arts and Culture at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design & Culture, New York. She has written and edited a number of books, including Charles and Ray Eames (1998) and Women Designers in the USA 1900 2000 (2001).