Purity of Aim: The Book Jacket Designs of Alvin Lustig

Purity of Aim: The Book Jacket Designs of Alvin Lustig is a colorful and well-researched representation of Lustig s book cover designs that were created primarily for New Directions Books and Noonday Press, among others. Lustig used the book cover as a vehicle of his bold graphic experimentation that was enhanced by a lifelong collaboration with James Laughlin, founder and publisher of New Directions Books. As a modern designer, Lustig had interests that spanned many fields: architectural, industrial and interior design which served as an expression of his deeply held convictions. For him, the designer was not a single-minded specialist, but an integrator of many art forms and simultaneously, as he saw it, a spokesman for social change.