Posters : a global history / Elizabeth E. Guffey.

Collection type	Library
Author	Guffey, Elizabeth E., author.;
Call Number	Art
Document type	Monograph
Year	2015.
Pagination	319 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm.
Publisher	Reaktion Books,
Note	Scheduled to be published June 2015. Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-306) and index. In 'Posters: A global history' Elizabeth Guffey tells the story of this ephemeral art form, from its birth in the nineteenth century to its place in contemporary culture. She argues that even among today's burgeoning digital media, few forms of graphic design can rival posters for their tangibility and sheer spatial presence. From London to Ramallah, Los Angeles to Lagos, posters provide new opportunities to communicate across public spaces that are themselves increasingly transformed by digital media. Th is book re-examines the roots of the poster, charting its rise from the revolutionary lithographs that papered nineteenth-century London and Paris to twentieth-century works of propaganda, advertising, pop culture and protest. It considers the lives of po sters: where and why posters were made, and why and how they endured. It examines posters from today's world, including posters of Palestinian martyrs and West African examples describing voodoo activities, and offers a rich variety of both familiar and l esser-known examples from the Soviet Union, China, Eastern and Western Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere. Beautifully illustrated, Posters provides a fresh history of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century poster as well as revealing insights into the designs and creative practices of our twenty-first-century world.
Place made	London :

Abstract

Machine generated contents note: 1.Consuming Words On The Street: 1840--1950 -- 2.Trashing Tradition: 1945--1965 -- 3.New Art, New Space: 1960--1980 -- 4.Fetishism And The Global Poster: 1960--1980 -- 5.A New Golden Age -- Digital Enchantment: 1980--2014.