Like the shift from modern to post-modernist art and architecture, where we encountered architects like Michael Graves and Richard Meier who blended modern purity with classical touches, we are entering a world where digital innovation is merging with traditional marketing fundamentals to create new approaches, new brand leaders, and new models for success.
The book boasts reprints of complete stories and full-color covers and as a means of accentuating the significant cultural value (both pop and otherwise) they had as examples of modern American art and vehicles for deep, wonderfully insightful critiques of post-war American society.
Looked at in this way, a closer examination of Christie's sale of Impressionist and modern art this week shows that things did not go quite as well as the post-sale press release let on.