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Gallery Program: August 2009 – January 2010
Abram Games
Maximum Meaning, Minimum Means
Abram Games
Maximum Meaning, Minimum Means
Abram Games Lecture Series, NCAD Gallery
at the Harry Clarke lecture theatre
National College of Art and Design/Gallery
100 Thomas Street,
Dublin 8,
Ireland.
Tel +353-1-6364390
Thursday 5th November, 4.30pm: Preceding the launch of the exhibition, ‘Abram Games, Maximum Meaning,
Minimum Means at the NCAD gallery, Abram Games’s daughter Naomi will
deliver a lecture on his life and work.
Tuesday 17th November, 6.30pm: Jan de Fouw, the well-known Dutch designer who moved to Ireland in
1951, and Conor Clarke, founder & Director of Design Factory and
author of ‘Orange and Green’ will hold a public conversation focusing
on how Ireland’s image was molded by Jan in the 1950s and 1960s.
Tuesday 1st December, 6.30pm: Dr Linda King (IADT): Politics, Pragmatism and Visualisation of
National Identities: The Legacy of Aer Lingus Advertising. This talk
will examine the importance of the airline in disseminating concepts of
national identity for both national and international audiences. The
design output of both Abram Games and a generation of Dutch designers
working in Dublin in the 1950s and 60s will be explored in this
context.
Tuesday 15th December, 6.30pm:
Wendy Williams (NCAD): Instruments of Mass Persuasion: War posters in
the 1930s and 40s. The poster became an increasingly eloquent means of
engendering a proactive mindset during the Second World War. In this
talk selected works, including those of Abram Games, are examined in
terms of motivations, ideologies and responses.
Tuesday 5th January, 6.30pm: Mary Ann Bolger (DIT): Round towers, West Brits and the ‘Battery Hens
of Moscow’: some issues in the ‘professionalisation’ of post-war Irish
graphic design. This paper will examine the generally overlooked
influence of British models, including Abram Games, on the
establishment of an Irish graphic design profession and the development
of an indigenous design vocabulary. It will also examine the pivotal
role that advertising designers – often maligned as apolitical,
commercial jobbers – played in directing the course of modern Irish
graphic design.
Places are limited, arrive early to avoid disappointment.
For further information please contact boothr@ncad.ie
National College of Art and Design/Gallery
100 Thomas Street,
Dublin 8.
Ireland.
Tel +353-1-6364261
Monday – Saturday 10.00 a.m. – 5.00 p.m.
Admission Free |
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