Art of Rock: Posters from Presley to Punk (Tiny Folio) - Softcover

Grushkin, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558596062 ISBN 13: 9781558596061

Publisher: Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S., 1993

Synopsis

This work tells the story of rock music, rock culture and rock graphics in 300 posters dating from 1955 to 1987. Based on Abbeville's "Art of Rock", the tiny folio reproduces in a miniature format the history of rock posters from the earliest wood block graphics to the psychedelic designs of the punk era. The posters represent exceptional graphic achievements and create a record of international culture. Rock posters are, arguably, great modern art. Unlike high art forms, these print advertisements are truly popular: they are collected by thousands of people. Once avaliable for less than a pound, now the price of original art-drawings, paintings, and artist mechanicals for these posters can exceed #500. As rock and its fans have aged, the number of rock-art collectors has grown. Now these innovative, electric, and vital images are available in a single volume that chronicles a 30-year visual history not only of the music but of the world that produced it. Author, collector, connoisseur and life-long rock fan Paul Grushkin provides a rollicking tour of 300 beautifully reproduced rock posters designed for legendary artists from Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly and the Beatles to Bob Dylan, Jim Morrisson and the Grateful Dead, to Bruce Springsteen, Blondie and the Talking Heads.

About this title

Review:

Fascinating and accessible . . . useful for both the scholar and the fan” New York Times

A literate, loving look at the poster’s evolution” Chicago Tribune

It flat-out rocks.” Newsweek

Widely considered the genre’s original bible.” San Francisco Chronicle

[This] exhaustively researched compilation brings together more than thirty years’ worth of the best and brightest rock posters and art work.” Rolling Stone

There really wasn’t such a thing as a rock poster expert until Paul Grushkin established himself as one with his stellar . . . Art of Rock” CMJ New Music Monthly

Rock n’ roll is here to stay, and the old posters advertising live shows seem to be sticking around too.” The Wall Street Journal

About the Author:

Paul Grushkin, a noted rock-music historian, has been collecting concert posters since 1969. His other books include The Art of Modern Rock and Rockin’ Down the Highway: The Cars and People That Made Rock Roll.

About this edition

• Publisher: Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1558596062
• ISBN 13: 9781558596061
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320