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"Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee " Best-selling biographer Michael Korda writes the first major biography of Robert E. Lee in nearly 20 years, bringing to life one of America's most iconic heroes. Learn more | See related books
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Every modern graphic designer simply owes it to him/herself to study the great posters from America's WPA chapter of the 1930's and 40's. Influenced by Art Deco and German Plakat-style, these are gorgeous, precisely composed public service announcements on many subjects, whose novel colors and stylized geometry still look wonderfully hip, spare and lean. One suspects that these posters might be even more impressive than the very events they announced. Lovers of Art Deco, Moderne, Streamline, Midcentury aesthetics simply must have this very complete and authoritative book. Highly recommended.
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I bought this as a gift for my wife and she really enjoyed it. The layout is very simple and modern, focusing more on the posters than any extraneous information or explanation. And it is full of beautiful art.
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A timely publication to tie in with the seventy-fifth anniversary of the New Deal and it's a worthwhile addition to the only other book on the subject: Christopher DeNoon's Posters of the WPA.
Ennis Carter has edited a lovely book of almost five hundred posters, divided into twelve sections. Though there were thousands produced the selection here will give you a good idea about the style and themes. Having looked through the book several times I feel there a couple creative styles shown in the posters: the solid color modernist ones with their angled headlines in geometric type promoting industry and the more whimsical folksy ones for art shows and plays. All of them reflect what is possible with the cheap silkscreen process so there is an absence of photos or anything that required a graduated tone. Fortunately the technique more or less makes artists and designers go for something simple and direct using two or three colors.
Most of the posters use silkscreen though I was surprised to see some that were captioned as `Hand painted on board', surely there weren't many produced like this. The cultural event ones had to present a lot of type detail for name of the event, players, location and ticket prices whereas the ones that could be called propaganda presented a straightforward message: Careless talk costs lives!
The book's production is first class with good paper and printed with a 175 screen and nicely all the posters have a drop shadow which lifts them off the page.Read more ›
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