- November 16, 2017, 3–5 p.m.
Graphic Design: between Negation and Affirmation in Container Corporation’s Great Ideas Advertising Series, c. 1950-1980
Featuring: Lara AllisonNewberry Library
60 West Walton Street, Chicago, Illinois, 60610

Detail from advertising poster for Container Corporation of America; Chicago : P. Theobald, 1946. Newberry Library. Call No. Wing folio ZA 3 .192
Lara Allison, Lecturer in Art History, Theory, and Criticism at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, examines the relationship between Abstract Expressionism, European modernism, and Pop Art in Walter Paepcke’s The Great Ideas of Western Manadvertising campaign, founded in 1950. Michael Golec, Assistant Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, moderates the discussion.