Object Details
- Designer
- Milan Grygar, Czechoslovakian, 1926 - 2006
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- The white background is divided by a grid into seven sections. Going clockwise, the sections are: (1)title: following upper margin "Anglicky film vyznamenany Velkou cenou na MFF v Cannes", and "zvetsenina" at lower margin of section; (2)title and pictorial exegesis: at right, vertically- "BLOW UP", along top margin: "Rezie: Michelangelo Antonioni", and the images of a plan of a sports arena, the number one, as appearing on a referee's scorecard, the pointing finger and hand of a man in a suit and cufflinks as it would appear in cartoons, and a diagram or man-made abstraction; (3, 4, 5, 6)same image of a photograph, layered one over another, as in stop-motion animation, of a young man pulling a shirt out of a young woman's arms as she holds it against her chest; and (7)a photograph of a nude, photographed from a low frontal angle.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Sara and Marc Benda
- 1968
- Accession Number
- 2010-21-92
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Poster
- Type
- Poster
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on wove paper, mounted on linen
- Dimensions
- 81.5 x 58.3 cm (32 1/16 x 22 15/16 in.)
- Mount: 84.1 x 60.9 cm (33 1/8 x 24 in.)
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_2010-21-92
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4c6cca3b2-0f3c-4ad9-bbaa-567426cc336c
