At War with War: 5000 Years of Conquests, Invasions, and Terrorist Attacks, an Illustrated Timeline by Chwast, Seymour

At War with War: 5000 Years of Conquests, Invasions, and Terrorist Attacks, an Illustrated Timeline (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781609807795)

Vendor: Seymour Chwast
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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At War with War: 5000 Years of Conquests, Invasions, and Terrorist Attacks, an Illustrated Timeline by Chwast, Seymour

At War with War: 5000 Years of Conquests, Invasions, and Terrorist Attacks, an Illustrated Timeline

$19.95
At War with War: 5000 Years of Conquests, Invasions, and Terrorist Attacks, an Illustrated Timeline by Chwast, Seymour

At War with War: 5000 Years of Conquests, Invasions, and Terrorist Attacks, an Illustrated Timeline

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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At War with War visualizes humanity's 5,000-year-long state of conflict, chaos, and violence on a continuous timeline. Seventy pages of stark black-and-white pen-and-ink drawings and woodcuts illustrate history's most notorious battles -- from 3300 BCE to the present day. Interspersed are contemplations on war from historic thinkers, including excerpts from "The Art of War" by Sun Tsu, "The Complaint of Peace" by Desiderius Erasmus, and "The State" by Randolph Bourne. Searing and sardonic, balancing anger and despair with wit and humanity, these raw illustrations follow in the tradition of great social satirists such as Honoré Daumier, Frans Masereel, Felix Vallotton, and Otto Dix.
Seymour Chwast is a design legend. As co-founder with Milton Glaser of Push Pin Studios, he led a revolution in graphic design in the 1960s and '70s, producing bold, vibrant work that pushed the limits of nearly every visual medium.Now, he turns his pen and sketchpad toward creating a new book on a subject that has been a personal obsession for nearly six decades: the fight against war, humankind's never-ending scourge.

Author: Seymour Chwast
ISBN-10: 1609807790
ISBN-13: 9781609807795
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Language: English
Published: 10/17/2017
Pages: 88
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.60w x 0.30d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 11/15/2017 pg. 36
Publishers Weekly 11/20/2017
By Seymour Chwast
By Seymour Chwast
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Seymour Chwast is an American graphic designer known for his diverse body of work, and lasting influence on visual culture. Born in 1931, in New York City, Chwast attended the Cooper Union, and was a founding partner with Milton Glaser of the celebrated Push Pin Studios, where he remains the director.
His designs and illustrations have graced posters, record covers, advertisements, and animated films, as well as corporate and environmental graphics. They have been exhibited in major galleries and museums around the world including the Louvre and his posters reside in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and others. He is the author of over 30 children's books, four graphic novels, and several typefaces, and many monographs of his work have been published. The complete collection of Chwast's posters were acquired by the Washington University's Modern Graphic History Library.
Chwast is a recipient of the AIGA Medal and holds several honorary degrees. He lives in New York City with his wife, the artist Paula Scher.

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