Maybe to interest to some of Saul Bass and Hitchcock collectors worldwide.
Enjoy!
Philipp
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SAUL BASS
The Hollywood Connection
January 4–April 1
Ruby and Hurd Galleries
Free
During his distinguished career, graphic designer Saul Bass (1920–1996)
became a legend for conceiving the now-iconic logos of such companies as AT&T
and
United Airlines. Bass is also recognized for transforming motion-picture
title sequences from static typography into an art form. This exhibition
focuses
on Bass's work for the American film industry. On view are posters,
soundtrack-album covers, Bass's storyboard of the famous shower scene in
Psycho
(1960), and continuous screenings of a montage of selected film titles edited
by
Bass and his wife, Elaine. The documentary Why Man Creates (1968), for which
Bass won an Academy Award, will also be screened in the exhibition.
It was award-winning filmmaker Otto Preminger who offered Bass his first
opportunity to design a title sequence—for the film Carmen Jones (1954). From
this groundbreaking early experience, Bass would come to work with such
illustrious filmmakers as Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and Martin
Scorcese,
all of whom valued Bass's creative use of animation, live action, and dynamic
typography. Bass—who, beginning with Spartacus (1960), collaborated with his
wife, Elaine—produced more than fifty title sequences for such celebrated
films as The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), Vertigo (1958), Exodus (1960),
Grand
Prix (1966), and Cape Fear (1991).
THE EXHIBITION WAS DEVELOPED WITH THE CURATORIAL GUIDANCE OF THE ACADEMY OF
MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES. THE SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER THANKS THE
FOLLOWING LENDERS TO THE EXHIBITION: ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND
SCIENCES, ARNOLD SCHWARTZMAN, SUSAN VAN DE VYVERE, AND WILLIAM AND GLEN GRANT.
THE EXHIBITION IS PRESENTED AS PART OF THE SKIRBALL'S "OUR CALIFORNIA"
SERIES, EXPLORING THE CHANGING CULTURAL, SOCIAL, AND CIVIC FORCES THAT HAVE
SHAPED
CALIFORNIA.
Poster for Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, designed by Saul Bass. © Paramount
Pictures.
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