Museums
of the Mind

For the studio of Sigrid Albert, stepup communications, whose direction let me have much freedom in the design of specifications for this book for Penn State University Press.

The subject: German modern literature provides a window into the history of The Museum as a tool of political will and public consciousness, and has since Germany began emulating French national insitutions in the Neoclassical period.

The original cover sketch, shown, was to be Franz Ferdinand's bloodied and bullet-torn coat, as displayed with Nationalist intentions by the German state in lands whose hearts and minds they were trying to win, despite having nothing to do with Franz Ferdinand historically. However, there was no image of a museum itself, and the author's surveyed friend swayed the vote. ,Still, I was able to retain some strictness on the interior, which was produced impeccably by Aldea Wood at stepup.