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1960

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1993

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Book Cover, Aesthetics Today

This is a Book cover. It was designed by Elaine Lustig Cohen. It is dated 1960 and we acquired it in 1993. Its medium is lithograph on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Tamar Cohen. It is credited Gift of Tamar Cohen and Dave Slatoff.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 18.1 x 23.9 cm (7 1/8 x 9 7/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Printed in black, vertically, front cover lower left: elaine lustig; in white, front cover upper right: aesthetics today; in black, front cover lower right: Readings selected, / edited, and / introduced by / MORRIS PHILIPSON / Meridian Books M112 $1.65

Cite this object as

Book Cover, Aesthetics Today; Designed by Elaine Lustig Cohen (American, 1927–2016); USA; lithograph on paper; H x W: 18.1 x 23.9 cm (7 1/8 x 9 7/16 in.); Gift of Tamar Cohen and Dave Slatoff; 1993-31-44

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