Michael Maharam’s Book List
If you really want to read about theory in the applied arts, Panofsky or Rudofsky will do.
If you want to read and look at pictures, it’s the Vision + Value series by György Kepes.
If you just want to look at pictures (like the rest of us) that tell the story, here’s my very short list that could have included many other titles. Have no shame—in my view, these books embody the best of composition, form, material, technique, utility, fashion, and, most of all, style.
And scattered among them are a few classics in case you need a change of scenery.
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Classicism meets utility in traditional materials at the luxury shop Lorenzi, on Milan’s Via Montenapoleone.
Humor infused with intellect will never go out of style.
A fashionable lesson in the value of the moment and the nature of obsolescence.
Thomas Mann at his lighthearted best—truly!
Art or design or design or art—is there really a difference?
The realism before neo-realism, though charmingly so.
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Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976–1986 by Andrew Blauvelt
Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976–1986
by Andrew Blauvelt
Publisher: Cranbrook Art Museum
Published: June 1, 2018
Explores the printed matter—posters, flyers, zines, and album covers—produced by and for the punk and post-punk music scenes in the United States and UK. Printed as a special, oversized, 52-page color newspaper, the catalogue has been published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name, curated by Andrew Blauvelt, on view at the Cranbrook Art Museum through October 7, 2018.
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