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You don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's real Jewish Rye

Poster
1967 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This is a poster advertising rye bread. The poster is characteristic of Doyle Dane Bernbach’s ‘New Advertising’, with its short, disarming headline and simple photograph with no unnecessary settings. Bernbach believed that provocation and humour resulted in the most effective advertising, and that this was most successfully achieved when the copywriter and art director collaborated closely.


Object details

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Object type
TitleYou don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's real Jewish Rye (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Colour offset lithograph on paper
Brief description
'You don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's'; re-issue of a poster first issued in 1967; America, ca.1967.
Physical description
Poster
Dimensions
  • Height: 1145mm
  • Width: 752mm
Credit line
Given by Mr Jack Rennert
Subjects depicted
Summary
This is a poster advertising rye bread. The poster is characteristic of Doyle Dane Bernbach’s ‘New Advertising’, with its short, disarming headline and simple photograph with no unnecessary settings. Bernbach believed that provocation and humour resulted in the most effective advertising, and that this was most successfully achieved when the copywriter and art director collaborated closely.
Collection
Accession number
E.307-1973

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Record createdFebruary 17, 2003
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