This book by the Moscow designer and graphic arts specialist Vladimir Krichevsky is dedicated to the graphic style of the 1956–1969 period, also known in Russian history by a remarkable poetical name.
The publication examines key aspects of the graphic manner and the most seminal stylistic canons, such as composition, fonts, nonrepresentational elements of a certain era. Graphic Signs of the Thaw is written for graphic art lovers, collectors, book addicts, publishers, and modern-day designers. By immersing the reader in the unheralded world of graphics, the author (a contemporary of the “thaw”) hopes to invoke genetic memory in the age of postmodernist “whateverness”.
