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100 posters that changed the world / Colin Salter

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Pavilion, 2020Description: 224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
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  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781911641452
  • 191164145X
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Contents:
Early wanted posters (1651-1881) -- Early recruitment posters (1776-1795) -- Anti-slavery campaigns (1788-1865) -- The great wave off Kanagawa (1829) -- Balloon trips (1839-1878) -- Emigration posters (1839-1955) -- Circus posters: Being for the benefit of Mr. Kite (1843) -- Vaccination posters (1851-1999) -- Pictorial wanted posters (1865-1934) -- French litho posters (1881-1890) -- Columbia bicycles (1886) -- Toulouse-Lautrec and advertising (1890-1896) -- Imre Kiralfy's spectacles (1892) -- Edward Penfield: Harper's magazine (1893) -- US magazine posters (1893-1898) -- Buffalo Bill posters (1893-1903) -- Alphonse Mucha: Sarah Bernhardt (1894) -- Barnum and Bailey posters (1895-1899) -- Film: Lumière Brothers (1896) -- Belle époque advertising (1896-1905) -- Michelin man (1898) -- Magicians' touring shows (1900-1920) -- US college posters (1900-1909) -- Illustrated directory posters (1905) -- Women's suffrage: America (1909) -- Anti-women's suffrage (1910) -- World War I: recruitment: Kitchener (1914) -- World War I: drink campaigns (1915) -- Recognition posters (1915-1942) -- World War I: recruitment: "Daddy, what did you do in the Great War?" (1915) -- Armenian aid posters (1915-1918) -- World War I: winning US public opinion (1917-1918) -- World War I: German propaganda (1914-1918) -- World War I: recruitment: Uncle Sam (1917) -- World War I: US Liberty Bonds (1917-1918) -- Temperance posters (1920) -- Enhanced colour travel posters (1920-1963) -- Art deco travel posters (1922-1937) -- Lucky Strike cigarettes (1928) -- The cult of Stalin (1930s-1953) -- Coca-Cola Santa (1931-) -- Nazi Third Reich posters (1932-1943) -- Transatlantic liners (1935) -- May celebrations (1936-1977) -- WPA: social policy posters (1936-1943) -- WPA: books and literacy posters (1936-1943) -- WPA: See America posters (1936-1943) --
Spanish Civil War posters (1936) -- Pan American clippers (1939-1942) -- Keep calm and carry on (1939) -- World War II: boosting morale (1939-1945) -- Careless talk costs lives (1939) -- Dig for victory (1939) -- Chesterfield cigarettes (1940s-1960s) -- Appeal for binoculars (1917 and 1942) -- VD posters (1942-1946) -- Rosie the riveter (1943) -- Tokio Kid say... (1943-1945) -- Norman Rockwell: Four freedoms (1943) -- Australian road safety posters (1949-1954) -- Einstein (1951) -- Vietnam propaganda posters (1953-1963) -- Film: B-film thrillers (1957-1958) -- TWA jet-age posters (1959-1965) -- Athena posters (1964-1995) -- The cult of Mao (1966-1976) -- Fillmore Hall, San Francisco (1966) -- Che Guevara (1967) -- Warhol: Marilyn (1967) -- Martin Luther King: I am a man (1968) -- Mexico Olympics (1968) -- Woodstock (1969) -- Missing posters (1969-2005) -- Anti-Vietnam war posters (1970) -- Contraception posters (1970-1995) -- Keep Britain tidy (1970s) -- Bullfighting posters (1972) -- Anti-smoking posters (1975-2017) -- Film: Jaws (1975) -- Farrah: red swimsuit (1976) -- Seal clubbing protest (1977) -- Labour isn't working (1978) -- Theatre: Cats (1981) -- Film: E.T. the extra terrestrial (1982) -- Nuclear waste trains (1983) -- Drink-driving posters (1983-1996) -- Live Aid (1985) -- AIDS posters (1986-1987) -- Drub abuse posters (1987-) -- PETA posters (1990-2019) -- Banksy: Girl with balloon (2002) -- Anti-Trident nuclear missile (2006-2016) -- Stonewall campaign (2007) -- Obama: Hope (2008) -- Theatre: Hamlet (2010-2020) -- Theatre: Hamilton (2015) -- Moped thieves (2017) -- Extinction rebellion (2019).
Summary: "Posters have always been used to seek an immediate response--designed to provoke a reaction, whether a public appeal, a legal threat, a call to arms, the offer of thrills, or to sell a product. Organized chronologically, 100 posters that changed the world charts the evolution of poster design from their earliest forms, through the glorious affiches of Belle Époque Paris to the more subtle visual communication of the 21st century. Stalinist rallying cries and anti-Trident missile posters sit alongside Keep Calm and Carry on and Rosie the Riveter in a collection of the most impactful, influential and reproduced poster designs of the last 300 years"--Back cover.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A collection of the world's most memorable, provocative, best-selling and groundbreaking posters from Johannes Gutenberg to Barack Obama.

Classic posters from the last 300 years and the stories behind them.



Posters have always been designed to seek an immediate response. From the time when paper was first affordable, the poster has been used to provoke a direct reaction, whether a public appeal, a legal threat, a call to arms, or the offer of entertainment. Newspapers might have the advantage of ubiquity in spreading



the word, but a poster could be tightly targeted by its location.



Organized chronologically, 100 Posters That Changed the World charts the history of poster design from their earliest forms as a means of information communication to the more subtle visual communication of the 21st century.



As printing became cheaper, posters were used for more than just promoting the capture of local villains or announcing government decrees. Advertisements took over, citing up-and-coming events, auctions, public meetings, political rallies, sports games, lectures and theatrical performances.



The technological leaps from engraving to aquatints to lithography, chromolithography and the offset press, all had their impact on what could be advertised by poster, and the art form took off spectacularly in the late 19th century with the influence of Lautrec and the Paris nightclubs. From then on, the poster became a sophisticated means of visual communication.



In the West it was used to sell products - in the East it was used to sell regimes and control behaviour.



Along with historic moments in poster evolution, 100 Posters That Changed the World charts the most impactful designs of the last 300 years - images that communicate a message whether commercial or political, images that sell a film, a musical, a cause or used for decoration, inspiration, motivation and affirmation. The affirmation for teenagers in the 1970s that Farah Fawcett was looking at you.

Includes index.

Early wanted posters (1651-1881) -- Early recruitment posters (1776-1795) -- Anti-slavery campaigns (1788-1865) -- The great wave off Kanagawa (1829) -- Balloon trips (1839-1878) -- Emigration posters (1839-1955) -- Circus posters: Being for the benefit of Mr. Kite (1843) -- Vaccination posters (1851-1999) -- Pictorial wanted posters (1865-1934) -- French litho posters (1881-1890) -- Columbia bicycles (1886) -- Toulouse-Lautrec and advertising (1890-1896) -- Imre Kiralfy's spectacles (1892) -- Edward Penfield: Harper's magazine (1893) -- US magazine posters (1893-1898) -- Buffalo Bill posters (1893-1903) -- Alphonse Mucha: Sarah Bernhardt (1894) -- Barnum and Bailey posters (1895-1899) -- Film: Lumière Brothers (1896) -- Belle époque advertising (1896-1905) -- Michelin man (1898) -- Magicians' touring shows (1900-1920) -- US college posters (1900-1909) -- Illustrated directory posters (1905) -- Women's suffrage: America (1909) -- Anti-women's suffrage (1910) -- World War I: recruitment: Kitchener (1914) -- World War I: drink campaigns (1915) -- Recognition posters (1915-1942) -- World War I: recruitment: "Daddy, what did you do in the Great War?" (1915) -- Armenian aid posters (1915-1918) -- World War I: winning US public opinion (1917-1918) -- World War I: German propaganda (1914-1918) -- World War I: recruitment: Uncle Sam (1917) -- World War I: US Liberty Bonds (1917-1918) -- Temperance posters (1920) -- Enhanced colour travel posters (1920-1963) -- Art deco travel posters (1922-1937) -- Lucky Strike cigarettes (1928) -- The cult of Stalin (1930s-1953) -- Coca-Cola Santa (1931-) -- Nazi Third Reich posters (1932-1943) -- Transatlantic liners (1935) -- May celebrations (1936-1977) -- WPA: social policy posters (1936-1943) -- WPA: books and literacy posters (1936-1943) -- WPA: See America posters (1936-1943) --

Spanish Civil War posters (1936) -- Pan American clippers (1939-1942) -- Keep calm and carry on (1939) -- World War II: boosting morale (1939-1945) -- Careless talk costs lives (1939) -- Dig for victory (1939) -- Chesterfield cigarettes (1940s-1960s) -- Appeal for binoculars (1917 and 1942) -- VD posters (1942-1946) -- Rosie the riveter (1943) -- Tokio Kid say... (1943-1945) -- Norman Rockwell: Four freedoms (1943) -- Australian road safety posters (1949-1954) -- Einstein (1951) -- Vietnam propaganda posters (1953-1963) -- Film: B-film thrillers (1957-1958) -- TWA jet-age posters (1959-1965) -- Athena posters (1964-1995) -- The cult of Mao (1966-1976) -- Fillmore Hall, San Francisco (1966) -- Che Guevara (1967) -- Warhol: Marilyn (1967) -- Martin Luther King: I am a man (1968) -- Mexico Olympics (1968) -- Woodstock (1969) -- Missing posters (1969-2005) -- Anti-Vietnam war posters (1970) -- Contraception posters (1970-1995) -- Keep Britain tidy (1970s) -- Bullfighting posters (1972) -- Anti-smoking posters (1975-2017) -- Film: Jaws (1975) -- Farrah: red swimsuit (1976) -- Seal clubbing protest (1977) -- Labour isn't working (1978) -- Theatre: Cats (1981) -- Film: E.T. the extra terrestrial (1982) -- Nuclear waste trains (1983) -- Drink-driving posters (1983-1996) -- Live Aid (1985) -- AIDS posters (1986-1987) -- Drub abuse posters (1987-) -- PETA posters (1990-2019) -- Banksy: Girl with balloon (2002) -- Anti-Trident nuclear missile (2006-2016) -- Stonewall campaign (2007) -- Obama: Hope (2008) -- Theatre: Hamlet (2010-2020) -- Theatre: Hamilton (2015) -- Moped thieves (2017) -- Extinction rebellion (2019).

"Posters have always been used to seek an immediate response--designed to provoke a reaction, whether a public appeal, a legal threat, a call to arms, the offer of thrills, or to sell a product. Organized chronologically, 100 posters that changed the world charts the evolution of poster design from their earliest forms, through the glorious affiches of Belle Époque Paris to the more subtle visual communication of the 21st century. Stalinist rallying cries and anti-Trident missile posters sit alongside Keep Calm and Carry on and Rosie the Riveter in a collection of the most impactful, influential and reproduced poster designs of the last 300 years"--Back cover.

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