Edited by Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Hans U. Gumbrecht
With an essay by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Design: Integral Lars Müller
64 pages, 91 illustrations
paperback
2001, 978-3-907078-52-5, German/English
‘A cross-section of a year chosen at random, the poster collection casts its net in its own archive and presents posters from Paris, London, Moscow, New York, Zurich or Milan. They all have only one thing in common: the year in which they were produced. For once history is not seen as a continuous development, but as a abroad showplace for simultaneity.’ Lars Müller Publishers
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