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
Date
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.)
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Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Link to Original Record
Record ID
chndm_2010-21-92