Posters American Style. This item is unavailable.Posters American Style

"A handsome survey of a century of vivid images that rallied support for such mainstays of civilization as war, peace, movies, psychedelic rock bands, and Levy's rye bread."-Los Angeles Times

A successful poster has an unmistakable and immediate impact. Featured here are 120 posters by some of the most popular American artists and graphic designers of the period. Will Bradley, Ben Shahn, Robert Rauschenberg, Rupert Garca, Wes Wilson, Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, and the Guerilla Girls are represented, along with other, less-familiar artists.

141 illustrations in full color, 85/8 x 111/2"

Posters urge people to enlist, vote, join, buy or boycott. Published to accompany a touring exhibition starting in March 1998 at the National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC, this is a study of American posters of the last 100 years, their impact and their place in art history. It depicts 120 examples, including work by some of the most popular American artists and graphic designers of the period. The author draws conclusions about the impact of posters, their context in the history of visual communication and how they challenge long-held conventions about the gap between high and low art. Also included are discussion of the technological advances of the last century, and biographies of the artists.