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ITEM: You are bidding on an original 1966 poster featuring the bold silhouette of Bob Dylan by Milton Glaser. This is perhaps the most famous poster to come out of the rock music world in the 1960s.
The images borrows from Surrealism, Pop Art and Expressionism. AGlaser crystallized the musician’s countercultural message by portraying his long hair as a rainbow of richly flowing waves. (Glaser’s poster would the psychedelic Art Nouveau inspired surrealist poster movement). In his book, 'Graphic Design', Glaser explained that the design of this poster was inspired by a cut-out paper silhouette self-portrait by Marcel Duchamps, which was a simple black and white profile, and the style of Dylan's hair was influenced by certain forms of Islamic painting. Poster measures 22" x 33". This is the original issuance, not a later reproduction.
An article on the poster from the Smithsonian magazine:Glaser, who received a National Medal of Arts at a White House ceremony this past February, was just beginning his extraordinary career as an artist and graphic designer when he undertook the Dylan project. (A couple of years later, he and editor Clay Felker would found New York magazine.) John Berg, then art director at Columbia Records, asked Glaser to create a poster to be folded and packaged into Dylan’s “Greatest Hits� LP. Glaser, today one of this country’s most prolific poster artists, with more than 400 to his credit, was new to the form. “This was probably my third or fourth poster,� he recalls. It would become one of the most widely circulated of all time; six million or more were distributed with the enormously popular album. Depicting Dylan with kaleidoscopic hair, the Glaser poster has been described as “psychedelic� and is often associated with rock posters produced in San Francisco at the same time. But Glaser, who had studied in Italy on a Fulbright scholarship in the early 1950s, is a formalist with a broad awareness of artists and art movements, and he took his inspiration for the Dylan profile from a 1957 self-portrait by Marcel Duchamp. Though Glaser used a similar composition, the transformation of Dylan’s curly mane into a tangled rainbow was his own invention.
On May-10-13 at 19:13:29 PDT, seller added the following information:
 
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