Art, Advertising, History: Boris Artzybasheff


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Screening the Axis: Boris Artzybasheff, advertising poster for Wickwire Spencer Steel Company, 1942 (University of North Texas Digital Library)

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Happy Days: Boris Artzybasheff, advertising poster for Wickwire Spencer Steel Company, 1942 (University of North Texas Digital Library)

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Springs with Stings: Boris Artzybasheff, advertising poster for Wickwire Spencer Steel Company 1942 (University of North Texas Digital Library)

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Wire to the Axis: Boris Artzybasheff, advertising poster for Wickwire Spencer Steel Company, 1942 (University of North Texas Digital Library)

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Decline of a Rising Sun
: Boris Artzybasheff, advertising poster for Wickwire Spencer Steel Company, 1942 (University of North Texas Digital Library)

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Wire with a Kick: Boris Artzybasheff, advertising poster for Wickwire Spencer Steel Company, 1942 (University of North Texas Digital Library)

LOCAL SCRAP COLLECTION DRIVES TIME 08/17/1942 p. 79

Junk Rains Hell on Axis: Boris Artzybasheff, advertisement for Wickwire Spencer Steel Company, Time, 17 August 1942 (Gallery of Graphic Design)



Time cover, 8 December 1952: Boris Artzybasheff




Time cover, 19 January 1959: Boris Artzybasheff



Time cover, 6 June 1960: Boris Artzybasheff




...and no, this isn't Boris Artzybasheff, but...






SHELL RESEARCH LABORATORIES LIFE 02/14/1944 p. 72

Shell Oil Company advertisement: artist unknown, Life, 14 February 1944



... this is.




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Boris Artzybasheff (1899-1965): photographer unknown, n.d.


A practical, empirical
rude-mechanical

postmodern
nation

that "grew up on"
Popular Mechanics

will
never be able


to grow out of
a high school trade shop


theory of
purposive junk