Lecture: Professor Ellen Lupton on Pop Art and Graphic Design

Join us for a lecture with Ellen Lupton in conjunction with the exhibition "Draw Like a Machine: Pop Art, 1952-1975" at the Menil Drawing Institute.
How did Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Idelle Weber, Faith Ringgold, and other similar artists employ commercial art techniques in their works? How did graphic designers such as Milton Glaser and Emory Douglas build on Pop Art’s new vernacular? Many mid-20th-century artists used lettering, tracing, printing, copying, and photomechanical enlarging in their artistic practices. In turn, Pop Art had an enormous impact on graphic design. This talk looks at this artwork and design through the lens of mechanical reproduction.
About the speaker:
Ellen Lupton is Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City. Her recent exhibitions include "Herbert Bayer: Bauhaus Master," "Face Values: Understanding Artificial Intelligence," and "The Senses: Design Beyond Vision." Her new exhibition "Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics" is now open at Cooper Hewitt. Lupton is the Betty Cooke and William O. Steinmetz Design Chair at MICA in Baltimore, where she has authored numerous books on design processes, including "Thinking with Type," "Graphic Design Thinking," and "Graphic Design: The New Basics." Her latest books are "Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers" and "Health Design Thinking." She is an AIGA Gold Medalist and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
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Public Program of The Menil Collection, Houston, TX. February 23, 2022.