Iron Fists: Branding the 20th-Century Totalitarian State is the first illustrated survey of the propaganda art, graphics, and artefacts created by the totalitarian governments of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, the USSR, and Communist China. The iconography produced by these regimes is universally recognized as their "brands": the swastika and aggressive typography of Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's streamlined Futurist posters and Black Shirt uniforms, the stolid Social Realism of Stalin's USSR, and Mao's Little Red Book and ...
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Iron Fists: Branding the 20th-Century Totalitarian State is the first illustrated survey of the propaganda art, graphics, and artefacts created by the totalitarian governments of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, the USSR, and Communist China. The iconography produced by these regimes is universally recognized as their "brands": the swastika and aggressive typography of Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's streamlined Futurist posters and Black Shirt uniforms, the stolid Social Realism of Stalin's USSR, and Mao's Little Red Book and ceramic figurines from the Cultural Revolution. Written by the eminent designer and design historian Steven Heller, who has long collected two- and three-dimensional examples from this period, Iron Fists focuses on graphic materials such as typefaces, logos, posters, advertisements, children's books, flags, and medals. As Heller explains, Mussolini fancied himself an art director and the Nazis had a sophisticated graphic program, featuring Hitler as "logo," that is remarkably similar to modern corporate identity systems. Heller also explores the meaning of color systems (each dictatorship had a distinctive palette), the development of regime-specific typefaces, and even the slogans used to both rally and terrorize the populace. Delving into the history of once-innocent antecedents in heraldry, color symbolism, and sacred and secular symbols, he demonstrates how these elements were put to disturbingly effective use in selling the totalitarian message.
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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to. pp 223. Original publishers illustrated laminated boards. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. This book is very heavy, and delivery costs may be a consideration especially outside Britain. An illustrated history of propaganda art and design from Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, the USSR, and Communist China. ISBN: 0714848468 Fine in fine dust jacket.
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Numerous color illustrations. Minor wear. Light spine bump. VG., Dustwrapper. 30x26cm, 223 pp., Weighs 1.8 kilos. Contents: The Nazis: Creating symbols; Propagating the brand; Wielding graphics; Culture war; The legacy of Nazi design--The Italian fascists: Creating the fascist myth; Fascist style; Promoting empire; Death to Mussolini--The Soviet communists: Branding Marxism; The Soviet avant-garde; The cult of personality; Socialist realism; The " new openness"--The communist Chinese: The great helmsman; Red style; Selling the cultural revolution; End of the brand.
