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Stop Motion

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The medium of the poster is distinguished by displaying messages combining images and text on a static, two-dimensional surface. Designers have, however, always toyed with extending the plane by adding a third dimension, whether spatial or temporal, in order to fool the eye. Stop Motion examines the myriad creative approaches to suggesting movement, recession into depth, dynamics, and rhythm. Perspectival narrowing and plastically rendered motifs are among the traditional stylistic means used in painterly and illustrative posters. Borrowings from Op Art or psychedelic art perplex the eye.

The medium of the poster is distinguished by displaying messages combining images and text on a static, two-dimensional surface. Designers have, however, always toyed with extending the plane by adding a third dimension, whether spatial or temporal, in order to fool the eye. Stop Motion examines the myriad creative approaches to suggesting movement, recession into depth, dynamics, and rhythm. Perspectival narrowing and plastically rendered motifs are among the traditional stylistic means used in painterly and illustrative posters. Borrowings from Op Art or psychedelic art perplex the eye.

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Edited by Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Bettina Richter

With an essay by Ellen Lupton

Design: Integral Lars Müller

16,5 × 24 cm, 6 ½ × 9 ½ in

96 pages, 170 illustrations

paperback

2019, 978-3-03778-601-7, German
English
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Bettina Richter

Bettina Richter studied art history, German and Romance languages and literature in Heidelberg, Paris and Zurich, graduating with a dissertation on the anti-war graphics of Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen in 1996. From 1997 to 2006, Bettina Richter served as a research associate at the Poster Collection of the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich and was appointed its curator in 2006. In this capacity she has realized, among other exhibitions, “The Magic of Things” (2012), “Japanese Poster Artists—Cherry Blossom and Asceticism” (2014), “Protest!” (2018), and “Talking Bodies” (2023). From 2000 to 2005 she taught at the Zurich University of the Arts. She has published and lectured extensively on subjects related to the history of art and literature, as well as on posters. Since 2007 she has served as the editor of the series “Poster Collection”, by the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich.

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