“Martha Graham” Book Spreads
Date
1937
Credits
- Merle Armitage 14 Editor
- Merle Armitage 14 Art Director
- Merle Armitage 14 Designer
Format
- Book 1001
Type of Work
- Finished work 5644
Locations Made
- California 266
Links
"For Martha Graham a book Armitage edited, designed, and art directed it required unconstrained latitudes of professional boundaries to conceive a visual and verbal language that would reflect Graham’s new grammer of movement. Meeting the challenge for Armitage meant choreographing the marriage of “form and content” with bold starkness and an active punch of words and the gesture of photos set to rhythmic typography."—https://designobserver.com/feature/merle-armitage-daddy-of-a-sunbaked-modernism/35878
