Abstract Code of the XX Century: Evolution in the Art and Impact on Magazine Design

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Anna V. Tsvetkova

PhD Student at the Chair of Photojournalism and Media Technologies, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

e-mail: veselinka15@yandex.ru

Section: History of Journalism

In this article magazine design and avant-garde lines of arts are analyzed as a single whole. In every style there are features of the common abstract code, that can show us development of the sign systems of the XX century as a single process, and allow to classify all these styles.

Keywords: abstract code, magazine design, modernism, postmodernism