Posters For The People

Author : Ennis Carter
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781594749988

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Posters for the People by Ennis Carter Pdf

This lavishly illustrated volume amasses nearly 500 of the best and most striking posters designed by artists working in the 1930s and early 1940s for the government-sponsored Works Progress Administration, or WPA. Posters for the People presents these works for what they truly are: highly accomplished and powerful examples of American art. All are iconic and eye-catching, some are humorous and educational, and many combine modern art trends with commercial techniques of advertising. More than 100 posters have never been published or catalogued in federal records; they are included here to ensure their place in the history of American art and graphic design. The story of these posters is a fascinating journey, capturing the complex objectives of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal reform program. Through their distinct imagery and clear and simple messages, the WPA posters provide a snapshot of an important era when the U.S. government employed hundreds of artists to create millions of posters promoting positive social ideals and programs and a uniquely American way of life. The resulting artworks now form a significant historical record. More than a mere conveyor of government information, they stand as timeless images of beauty and artistic accomplishment.

Author : Josh MacPhee
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781558616783

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Celebrate People's History! by Josh MacPhee Pdf

The best way to learn history is to visualize it! Since 1998, Josh MacPhee has commissioned and produced over one hundred posters by over eighty artists that pay tribute to revolution, racial justice, women's rights, queer liberation, labor struggles, and creative activism and organizing. Celebrate People's History! presents these essential moments—acts of resistance and great events in an often hidden history of human and civil rights struggles—as a visual tour through decades and across continents, from the perspective of some of the most interesting and socially engaged artists working today. Celebrate People's History includes artwork by Cristy Road, Swoon, Nicole Schulman, Christopher Cardinale, Sabrina Jones, Eric Drooker, Klutch, Carrie Moyer, Laura Whitehorn, Dan Berger, Ricardo Levins Morales, Chris Stain, and more.

Author : Princeton Architectural Press
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781616897338

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Posters for Change by Princeton Architectural Press Pdf

The US presidential election in 2016 brought to a head myriad political activism around the world, around the rights of minorities, women, the LGBTQ community, and the environment. In the midst of this turmoil, nearly 300 designers from around the world answered the call to create this collection of 50 tear-out posters for people who want to make their voices heard in a time of unprecedented uncertainty and apprehension. A foreword by Avram Finkelstein, a designer for the AIDS art activist collective Gran Fury, looks at the crucial role of graphic activism in the current political climate.

Author : Cory Pillen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351004206

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WPA Posters in an Aesthetic, Social, and Political Context by Cory Pillen Pdf

This book examines posters produced by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a federal relief program designed to create jobs in the United States during the Great Depression. Cory Pillen focuses on several issues addressed repeatedly in the roughly 2,200 extant WPA posters created between 1935 and 1943: recreation and leisure, conservation, health and disease, and public housing. As the book shows, the posters promote specific forms of knowledge and literacy as solutions to contemporary social concerns. The varied issues these works engage and the ideals they endorse, however, would have resonated in complex ways with the posters’ diverse viewing public, working both for and against the rhetoric of consensus employed by New Deal agencies in defining and managing the relationship between self and society in modern America. This book will be of interest to scholars in design history, art history, and American studies.

Author : Christopher DeNoon
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:49015000576398

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Posters of the WPA by Christopher DeNoon Pdf

These posters were designed for other federal agencies, and as travel posters, education and civic activity posters, health and safety posters, and propaganda posters for World War II.

Author : Zen Faulkes
Publisher : Pelagic Publishing Ltd
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781784272364

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Better Posters by Zen Faulkes Pdf

Better posters mean better research. Distilling over a decade of experience from the popular Better Posters blog, Zen Faulkes will help you create a clear and informative conference poster that delivers maximum impact. Academics have used posters to share research for more than five decades, and tens of thousands of posters are presented at conferences every year. Despite the popularity of the format, no in-depth guide has been available on how to create and deliver compelling conference posters. From over-long titles, tiny text and swarms of logos, to bad font choices, chaotic colour schemes and blurry images – it’s easy to leave viewers confused about your poster’s message. The solution is Better Posters: a comprehensive guide to everything you need to know – from writing a title and submitting an abstract, to designing the poster and finally presenting it in the poster session. Your conference poster will be one of your first research outputs, and the poster session is your first introduction to a professional community. Making a great poster develops the skills to create publications, reports, outreach and teaching materials throughout your career. This book also has material for conference organizers on how to make a better poster session for their attendees.

Author : Harriet Evans,Stephanie Donald
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 0847695115

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Picturing Power in the People's Republic of China by Harriet Evans,Stephanie Donald Pdf

Provides an innovative reinterpretation of the cultural revolution through the medium of the poster -- a major component of popular print culture in China.

Author : Lincoln Cushing,Ann Tompkins
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-27
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0811859460

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Chinese Posters by Lincoln Cushing,Ann Tompkins Pdf

Introduction -- People, poverty, politics, and posters -- Nature and transformation -- Production and mechanization -- Women hold up half the sky -- Serve the people -- Solidarity -- Politics in command -- After the cultural revolution.

Author : Giorgio Miescher,Lorena Rizzo,Jeremy Silvester
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 3905758091

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Posters in Action by Giorgio Miescher,Lorena Rizzo,Jeremy Silvester Pdf

Author : Weldon Owen,Theresa Pierno,JP Boneyard,Fifty-Nine Parks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781647223700

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The Art of the National Parks (Fifty-Nine Parks) by Weldon Owen,Theresa Pierno,JP Boneyard,Fifty-Nine Parks Pdf

"Fifty-Nine Parks collaborated with some of the world's foremost contemporary artists and designers to create original posters that celebrate the unique beauty of the U.S. National Park system. Each poster is a contemporary take on the W.P.A. posters of the 1930s, resulting in a one-of-a-kind tribute to the majesty of the national parks"--

Author : Theresa Thau Heyman
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0810982021

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Posters American Style by Theresa Thau Heyman Pdf

Contains 120 posters by popular American artists, such as Robert Rauschenberg, Georgia O'Keeffe, Rupert Garcia, Ben Shahn, Will Bradley and Norman Rockwell. Heyman draws conclusions about the position of posters in the overall history of visual communication.

Author : James Aulich,Marta Sylvestrová
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Europe, Central
ISBN : 0719054192

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Political Posters in Central and Eastern Europe, 1945-95 by James Aulich,Marta Sylvestrová Pdf

Publikacja towarzysząca wystawie - "Sign of the times": Manchester Metropolitan University, 17.11.1999 - 31.01.2000.

Author : Creative Action Network
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781523511464

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Posters for a Green New Deal by Creative Action Network Pdf

"The Green New Deal is the most exciting idea in American politics for decades––and as theses powerful posters make clear, it’s grabbed the attention not just of policy wonks but of artists who can translate these ideas into images that move us.”––Bill McKibben, bestselling author of Deep Economy Posters with a purpose. A clarion call for our time, the Green New Deal is a bold and far-reaching legislative plan to fight climate change, create millions of good-paying jobs, promote economic and racial equality, and so much more. In its ambition, it’s a vision that mirrors President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, which helped pull the country out of the Great Depression. And just as WPA artists mustered support for the New Deal with their work, here are 50 powerful posters to champion the Green New Deal. The posters are original, colorful, and visually striking, with text on the back that explains each issue and how the Green New Deal seeks to address it. Perforated pages make them easy to tear out and hang or use as signs at marches and demonstrations, because it’s not just a book to flip through. Climate change affects everything: the air we breath, the water we drink, the food we eat, the places we call home, and the people we love. And the time to act on it is now.

Author : Christina Holtz-Bacha,Bengt Johansson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319324982

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Election Posters Around the Globe by Christina Holtz-Bacha,Bengt Johansson Pdf

This book examines the history and role of election posters as one of the most crucial forms of political communication, especially in electoral campaigns, in a number of countries around the globe. The contributing authors present comparative research on electoral posters from countries from all five continents, summarizing international similarities and national differences. The book also discusses theoretical aspects and different methodological approaches that are used for studying the design, content and reception of election posters as a means of political communication.

Author : Scott Laserow,Natalia Delgado
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350090170

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Making Posters by Scott Laserow,Natalia Delgado Pdf

Posters have the power to influence and inform - so how does a designer hone their creations to have the impact they need? With a special focus on conceptualization, internationally-acclaimed and award-winning designers Natalia Delgado and Scott Laserow takes you though planning, analyzing and creating posters that stop viewers in their tracks. Classic and contemporary examples from around the world show you what can be achieved at the cutting-edge of the medium - from protest and propaganda posters, through pop culture and Swiss style, to animated and interactive designs. Whether you need to promote the next president, advertise a brand or create awareness of a health crisis, Making Posters gives you the critical and practical skills to excel in one of the most widely seen forms of graphic design and make sure your work stands out from the crowd.