Book Description

'In DESIGN FOR DEATH Barbara Jones shows us some of the beautiful. vulgar, frightening & propitiatory things that people make when confronted' by death. She is celebrated not only for her painting & graphic work but as one of the people who have changed the way we look at things. she ha made a study, for example, of hunting out the decorative and amusing artefacts of Victorian & mass-production. Miss Jones is a Fellow of the Society of Industrial Artists & Designers & a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
Author Barbara Jones
Date 1967 (First Edition)
Binding Mauve boards with gilt titles to spine + colour dust wrapper featuring Jones' designs on front & spine with a portrait of her on the back
Publisher Andre Deutsch
Illustrator Numerous black/white photographs, drawings & sketches by the author & collected by her.
Condition VG in a VG dust wrapper
Pages 304

Price: £50.00

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