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Paul Grushkin
The Art of Rock: Posters from Presley to Punk
by Artabras Publishers (Hardcover)

This unique compilation of more than 1,500 rock concert posters from the 1950s through today reproduces, in full color, all of the stunning, original, and outrageous artwork.

Jenny De Gex
The Art of Skiing: Vintage Posters from the Golden Age of Winter Sport
by Universe (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2006-10-10)

This book is a must-have gift for anyone interested in skiing or in the art of the poster. Organized by country, it features the world's foremost winter sport by drawing on an unparalleled collection of 800 vintage posters and paintings. Amassed by Mason Beekley over a lifetime dedicated to the celebration of all things skiing, the collection is now housed at the Mammoth Ski Museum in California and open to the public. In the 1910s and 1920s, skiing became the "in" thing among the young and the fashionable, who made such glamorous resorts like St. Moritz, Chamonix, and Garmisch famous. Like car racing, skiing was one of the sports that defined the twentieth-century's notion of the modern. It combined fast-paced action with the need to appear in stylish, sporty yet appropriate attire. Since it took place away from everyday urban life in remote and breathtaking mountain locations, it also combined the romance of travel with the stylishness of après-ski social life and ski ...

Film Posters Horror
by Evergreen (Paperback)

This splendid, if scary, collection of movie posters covers over 80 years of horror films and features all the classics of the genre from early silents such as "Nosferatu" (illustrated here with a hitherto unpublished poster) and "The Cabinet of Dr Caligari" to contemporary blockbusters like "Silence of the Lambs". The films are grouped by categories, such as Universal Studios' uniquely rich hoard of horror, the products of British horror specialists Hammer Films, Japanese horror movies, horror spoofs such as "An American Werewolf in London", or serial killer movies. Also featured is the work of directors who are wholly or partly remembered for their contribution to the genre, like Roman Polanski ("Repulsion" and "Rosemary's Baby"), Alfred Hitchcock ("The Birds" and "Psycho"), David Cronenberg ("The Fly") and Brian de Palma ("Carrie and Sisters"). Horror, perhaps more than any other genre, offers the poster artist the opportunity to create an image that is both disturbing and ...

Taschen Publishing
Chinese Propaganda Posters (French and German Edition)
by TASCHEN America Llc (Paperback)

With his smooth, warm, red face which radiated light in all directions, Chairman Mao Zedong was a fixture in Chinese propaganda posters produced between the birth of the People's Republic in 1949 and the early 1980s. These infamous posters were, in turn, central fixtures in Chinese homes, railway stations, schools, journals, magazines, and just about anywhere else where people were likely to see them. Chairman Mao, portrayed as a stoic superhero (a.k.a. the Great Teacher, the Great Leader, the Great Helmsman, the Supreme Commander), appeared in all kinds of situations (inspecting factories, smoking a cigarette with peasant workers, standing by the Yangzi River in a bathrobe, presiding over the bow of a ship, or floating over a sea of red flags), flanked by strong, healthy, ageless men and "masculinized" women and children wearing baggy, sexless, drab clothing.

Bruce Hershenson
60 Great Sci-Fi Movie Posters (Illustrated History of Movies Through Posters, Volume 20)
by Bruce Hershenson (Paperback)

60 of the very best sci-fi movie posters ever made.

William L. Bird, Harry R. Rubenstein
Design for Victory: World War II Poster on the American Home Front
by Princeton Architectural Press (Paperback)

Inciting Americans at home to do their part in producing for the war effort, the poster--inexpensive, accessible, and ever-present--was an ideal agent for making war aims the personal mission of every citizen. From 1941 to 1945, government agencies, businesses, and private organizations issued an array of poster images linking the military front with the home front, calling upon all Americans to boost production at work and at home. The U.S. Office of War Information created the "Poster Pledge," urging volunteers to "avoid poster waste," "treat posters as real war ammunition," and "never let a poster lie idle." This colorful collection of over 150 World War II-era posters focuses on the theme of wartime production on the home front. The range of designs and images will inspire graphic designers, while the descriptive captions and informative text will interest history and military buffs. Some of the famous slogans these posters introduced include "When ...

James Aulich
War Posters: Weapons of Mass Communication
by Thames & Hudson (Hardcover)

A wide selection of the most eye-catching and iconic examples from the Imperial War Museum's internationally renowned poster collection.Published to accompany an exhibition at London's Imperial War Museum, this book features more than 250 superb full-color illustrations of hard-hitting propaganda and groundbreaking graphic art. It encompasses iconic images such as Alfred Leete's "Your Country Needs You" as well as additional material drawn from the world of advertising and documentary photographs of posters in situ.Through posters, the author examines the social, political, ethnic, and cultural aspirations of America, Britain, Ireland, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Russia, Austria, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. Covering topics as diverse as advertising in World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, Germany and Occupied Europe in World War II, anti-nuclear campaigns, and Vietnam, the book is comprehensive and highly analytical, yet accessible. 300 ...

Film Posters Of The 60s: The Essential Movies Of The Decade
by Evergreen (Paperback)

The 60's bought Sean Connery as James Bond to the screens. Rock stars like The Beatles also made movies. Films like "Cool Hand Luke", "The Graduate", "Dracula", "Night of the Living Dead", "The Endless Summer", "2001 a Space Odyssey", "Ocean's 11" along with a heap of Westerns and World War movies like "The Dirty Dozen" and "The Great Escape" have stood the test of time. Clint Eastwood, Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman and others went up on walls for the first time in the 60's and you can put them up again today.

Alex Chun
The Glamour Girls of Bill Ward
by Fantagraphics Books (Hardcover)

Renowned pin-up artist Bill Ward gets the full coffee table treatment in a lavish, oversized, full-color collection of his most polished 1950s illustrations. Imagine, if you will, an innocent but stunning young woman boasting the most unlikely Barbie-like proportions—and then some—poured into a wisp of lingerie or clingy cocktail dress, silky opera-length gloves, and sheer thigh-high stockings, perched precariously but not inelegantly atop a pair of dangerously high stiletto heels, and you've got the recipe for the quintessential Wardian glamour girl. Ward's girls became staples of countless men's and humor magazines where he shared the pages with cult models like Bettie Page and fellow "good girl" artists such as Dan DeCarlo and Jack Cole. Ward became the standard bearer and justly famous through the '50s and '60s for his angular, high-sheen images of improbably busty glamour girls, a kind of low-rent Charles Dana Gibson. What set Ward apart—and above—his talented ...

Eddie Muller
Art of Noir: The Posters And Graphics From The Classic Era Of Film Noir
by Overlook Hardcover (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2002-10-24)

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