Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Structured thematically, with each chapter covering a specific genre of magazine, this book looks at the heydays of world-famous magazines. It considers the methodology, motivations and aims of the art directos and designers behind the best magazine covers.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction (p. 6)
• Chapter 1 The Art of Art and Design Magazines (p. 12)
• The Art Nouveau Journal Avant-Garde Magazines
• The Modern Movement in Graphic Design Modernism in Post-War America
• Modernism and the Post-War Design Press Ark
• Opus International The Graphics Press Today
• High Design on the High Street
• Chapter 2 The Illustrated Cover (p. 34)
• Satire: Late 19th to Early 20th Century Illustrated Good Taste
• Fortune The Saturday Evening Post
• The New Yorker Sci-fi Pulps
• Everyday Experts Private Eye
• Ty I Ja
• Chapter 3 Covering the World (p. 56)
• Revolutionary Magazines Photojournalism in Europe
• AIZ Picture Post
• Photojournalism in the US: Life Ebony
• The National Geographic Magazine The Sunday Supplements
• Covering Vietnam The Underground Press
• Tales of New York and London Spare Rib
• Wired Colors
• Protest
• Chapter 4 Celebrity and Popular Culture (p. 92)
• Hollywood on the cover Crime Pulps
• Boxing Magazines Magazines for teenage readers
• The Music Broadsheets Punk Fanzines
• The Face Ray Gun
• Interview
• Chapter 5 Fashion and Lifestyle (p. 114)
• Ladies' Home Journal Vogue between the wars
• Harper's Bazaar Alexander Liberman and American Vogue
• Seventeen Twen
• Esquire Town
• i-D The Style Press Today
• Further Reading (p. 138)
• Index (p. 142)
• Acknowledgments (p. 144)