Graphis 34, 1951

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Content includes:
Antoni Clave (Francois Stahly)
A.M. Cassandre (Bernard Champigneulle)
The Art Directors Club of New York: 29th Annual Exhibition of Advertising and Editorial Art, New York 1950 (Charles Rosner)
Physiographs (George T. Hillman)
English Book Illustration Today (James Boswell)
Commercial Art in Post-War Germany ( Eberhard Holscher)
Erberto Carboni (Gianni Monnet)
Dulciora, a “graphic” confectioner’s shop in Milan (Gio Ponti)
Treize planches de Cornelia
Nus de Lucas Cranach I’Ancien

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Graphis 34, 1951. Cover design by Antoni Clavé
Graphis 34, 1951. Cover design by Antoni Clavé
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