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The “Design Event”: The Anti-Design-Historian and a Poetics of the Object

Kerry William Purcell Kerry William Purcell is Senior Lecturer in Design History at University of Hertfordshire. He is the author of books on the art director and designer Alexey Brodovitch (Phaidon, 2002), the photographer Weegee (Phaidon, 2004), and the Swiss graphic designer Josef Muller-Brockmann (Phaidon, 2006), and co-editor of The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design (Phaidon, 2012). His current research is looking at the application of the work of French philosopher Alain Badiou to the areas of design and photography. [email protected]
Pages 51-64 | Published online: 21 Apr 2015

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