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Andy Warhol The Complete Commissioned Posters, 1964-1987
ISBN: HB: 9783791349718, Prestel Publishing, April 2014
176 pp., 33x25 cm, 175 colour illus.
Published for the first time in a single volume, this definitive collection of original posters produced by Andy Warhol reveals the artist's remarkable contribution to the art of poster design. Throughout his career, Andy Warhol easily crossed the b...
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£39,99
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Poster Collection 26 Japan – Nippon
ISBN: PB: 9783037784228, Lars Muller Publishers, February 2014
112 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 137 illus.
Posters circulated in Japan simultaneously with the country's swift reconstruction and economic revival after the Second World War. If the first generation of poster designers was mostly guided by Western modernism, searching for a universal and func...
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£24,00
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Poster Collection 25 Josef Muller-Brockmann
ISBN: PB: 9783037783924, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2013
96 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 140 illus.
Josef Muller-Brockmann's graphics left a lasting mark on Swiss visual communication from the 1950s onward. His posters demonstrate how a sober, formally reduced language works best for conveying a universal, timeless message. Poster campaigns for lon...
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Poster Collection 24 The Magic of Things
ISBN: PB: 9783037782583, Lars Muller Publishers, September 2012
96 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 127 illus.
"The Magic of Things" explores a former advertising strategy of Swiss product posters in which banal, everyday objects – butter, a sewing machine, or shoes – are presented as desirable objects enticing us to buy. Free from any further contextualizati...
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£25,00
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Windows on the War Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945
ISBN: HB: 9780300170238, Yale University Press, A+D Series, September 2011
400 pp., 32.4x24.8 cm, 300 colour images, 140 black&white illus.
"Windows on the War" is a groundbreaking publication – the first in English to focus on posters designed by the Soviet Union's "TASS" news agency to bolster support for the Soviet war effort. "TASS" posters were created by a large collective of Sovie...
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£55,00
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Health for Sale Posters from the H. Helfand Collection
ISBN: PB: 9780300171174, Yale University Press, April 2011
60 pp., 27.2x20.3 cm, 5 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.
Since the late 1960s, William H. Helfand has donated more than 1,000 posters, prints, and ephemera to the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Ars Medica Collection, the world's only collection of medical prints housed in an art museum. This fascinating volu...
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£15,00
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Poster Collection 05 Typotecture
ISBN: PB: 9783907078891, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2002
64 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 85 illus.
"Typotecture" takes a look at posters from various countries and periods, which share a special feature of typography: the tendency to break out of the two-dimensional space of lettering and establish hybrid links with architecture. Letters, words, o...
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£15,00
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Poster Collection 01 Revue 1926
ISBN: PB: 9783907078525, Lars Muller Publishers, January 2001
65 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 91 illus.
A cross-section of a year chosen at random, the poster collection casts its net in its own archive and presents posters from Paris, London, Moscow, New York, Zurich or Milan. They all have only one thing in common: the year in which they were produce...
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£20,00
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