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SELECTED BYANDREA RAUCHDYLAN POSTERDESIGNED BYMILTON GLASER
Milton Glaser’s “Dylan” poster was perhaps the most influential graphic object of my formative years, the early ’70s, when I just got out of school. “Dylan” was full of the spirit of the time, and if on one hand it described in a perfect manner a singer, author, and poet of great charm and success, on the other hand it was having a deep dialogue with the artistic culture of the 20th (it is known that the first inspiration for Glaser came from the famous black-and-white silhouette of Marcel Duchamp).
The poster also brings about a wonderful synthesis between the world of image and the world of type, transforming the two parts of the project in a totally inextricable unit, exceeding ...
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