From band posters stapled to telephone poles to the advertisements
hanging at bus shelters to the inspirational prints that adorn office
walls, posters surround us everywhere―but do we know how they began?
Telling the story of this ephemeral art form, Elizabeth E. Guffey
reexamines the poster’s roots in the nineteenth century and explores the
relevance they still possess in the age of digital media. Even in our
world of social media and electronic devices, she argues, few forms of
graphic design can rival posters for sheer spatial presence, and they
provide new opportunities to communicate across public spaces in cities
around the globe.
Guffey charts the rise of the
poster from the revolutionary lithographs that papered
nineteenth-century London and Paris to twentieth-century works of
propaganda, advertising, pop culture, and protest. Examining
contemporary examples, she discusses Palestinian martyr posters and West
African posters that describe voodoo activities or Internet con men,
stopping along the way to uncover a rich variety of posters from the
Soviet Union, China, the United States, and more. Featuring 150 stunning
images, this illuminating book delivers a fresh look at the poster and
offers revealing insights into the designs and practices of our
twenty-first-century world.
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