The Golden Age of Magic Posters
Author | : Gabe Fajuri |
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Release | : 2016-05-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781532301568 |
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Author | : Gabe Fajuri |
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Release | : 2016-05-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781532301568 |
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Publisher | : Batsford |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-05-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781849942782 |
Few sights can reawaken memories of happy holidays of yesteryear as vividly as the superb railway posters that were so much a part of the great age of mass rail travel. Between the 1930s and 1950s – regarded by many as the heyday of advertising graphic art – a huge range of posters appeared, bearing slogans proclaiming the attractions of such resorts as 'Weston-super-Mare – in Smiling Somerset', and presenting a colourful picture of Britain at its best. Through images as diverse as bustling cities, scenes of rural tranquility and majestic mountain landscapes they offer an escapist paradise, where appealingly uncrowded beaches basking in permanent sunshine are just a train journey away. This beautiful collection includes over 80 vintage posters from the 30s, 40s and 50s, with individual poster captions describing the artists and locations depicted. Michael Pailin recaptures the spirit of the great days of railway holidays and train excursions in his entertaining introduction – an era that is both within living memory and yet part of a bygone age.
Author | : Victor Margolin |
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Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Decoration and ornament |
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Author | : Stephen Rebello |
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Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
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A deluxe, full-color collection of the most striking posters from Hollywood's greatest era includes the often surprising tales of their creation.
Author | : Hayward Cirker |
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Release | : 1971 |
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ISBN | : 9780706601190 |
Author | : Lorenzo Ottaviani |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2007-11 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
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Travel Italia is a must-have gift for anyone interested in Italy or in the art and design of the poster. Organised by region, it features Italy's foremost tourist destinations by drawing on an unparalleled collection of over 150 vintage posters and paintings from 1920 through 1960 commissioned by the Italian National Tourism Agency. Each vibrantly coloured, hand-rendered poster design features a particular destination, ranging from the main art cities (such as Florence and Bologna) to lesser known alpine jewels (such as Cadore and Dobbiaco). Commissions for poster art creation were given to well-known artists of the time, such as Mario Puppo, A.M. Cassandre, and Mario Borgoni, among others, and many of their dazzling works are featured in these pages.
Author | : Christian Vachon |
Publisher | : 5Continents |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2017-06-20 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9788874397587 |
In 2015 the McCord Museum in Montreal, Canada, was gifted with the Allan Slaight Collection, one of the largest treasuries of posters and documents on magic in the world. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Illusions. The Art of Magic at the McCord Museum, this volume presents 250 exceptional posters from this collection, dating from the 1880s to the 1940s. During this period, known as the Golden Age of Magic, droves of traveling magicians and prestidigitators fought a veritable advertising war. All over the United States and Europe, city walls and billboards were plastered with posters offering tantalizing previews of their most spectacular tricks, giving poster designers and printers of the era a golden opportunity to flex their imaginations and load their work with devils and demons, skeletons and skulls, bodies and decapitated heads, playing-cards and rabbits, alluring assistants, phantasmagoria and esoteric symbols. Seven authors recognized as experts in their respective fields introduce this dazzling array of color and fantastic imagery, providing insights to explain the full historic, social and artistic value of these magnificent posters.
Author | : Hayward Cirker |
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Release | : 1979-01-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780844600598 |
Author | : Clive Barker |
Publisher | : Dilettante Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
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In the 1980s a group of entrepreneurs in Ghana created small-scale, mobile film-distribution empires, hitting the road with videocassettes, television monitors, portable gas-powered generators and rolled-up, hand-painted, artist-signed canvas posters. This new medium created the first opportunity for some of the best young painters in Ghana to express themselves on a public scale. In the frequent absence of an original image upon which to base the work they had been commissioned to produce, the artists inevitably created cinematic paintings that were largely interpretive and imagination-driven. In the book's four major essays, author Ernie Wolfe III recounts the rise and fall of the mobile cinema tradition, while noted African art scholar Roy Sieber follows two-dimensional art in Africa from rock paintings in the Sahara to contemporary manuals, wall paintings, and barber board paintings as well as the canvas movie posters themselves; Paul Hayes Tucker compares the phenomenon to 19th century European utility-based painting; and poet and art critic John Yau contributes the perspective of an American art historian. In addition, Hollywood film notables such as horror auteur Clive Barker, actor LeVar Burton, actress Anjelica Huston, and director Gus Van Sant contribute chapter introductions.
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Release | : 1971 |
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