London Transport posters : a century of art and design / edited by David Bownes and Oliver Green ; with contributions by Jonathan Black ... [et al.].

Collection type	Library
Author	Bownes, David.; Green, Oliver.; Black, Jonathan, 1969-; London Transport Museum.;
Call Number	ART
Document type	Monograph
Year	c2008.
Pagination	240 p. : col. ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Publisher	Lund Humphries ; In association with London Transport Museum,
Note	Published in association with the London Transport Museum. Formerly CIP. Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-236) and index.
Place made	Aldershot [England] ; Burlington, VT : London :

Abstract

Foreword: Frank Pick: a personal tribute / Tim O'Toole -- Introduction / David Bownes and Oliver Green -- Timeline -- Pictorial Posters in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century / Catherine Flood -- Appearance values: Frank Pick and the art of Londo n Transport / Oliver Green -- Artist and printer: poster production 1900-70 / Alan Powers -- The new publicity: design reform, commercial art and design education 1910-39 / Paul Rennie -- Selling the underground suburbs 1908-33 / David Bownes -- Fashionin g the tube: women and transport posters in the 1920s and 1930s / Emmanuelle Dirix -- "Pictures with a sting': the London Underground and the interwar modernist poster / Jonathan Black -- Underground posters in wartime / Bex Lewis and David Bownes -- The r oller coaster ride: London Transport posters since 1945 / Brian Webb -- Art for all? The reception of underground posters / Claire Dobbin.