Posters - The 20th-Century Poster - Design of the Avant-Garde

Abbeville Press, 1984.
Ex Library but only defects are two library stamps on block edge, one bookshop stamp inside and two small tape residues on back endpaper. Front endpaper has been replaced.

The poster has been instrumental in spreading the ideas and images that have characterized each period of modern history. It has reflected social and cultural upheavals and in its most experimental periods has led the way to new forms and motifs. This publication contains a vivid and memorable account of the poster. The authors recall the wide and frequently contradictory range of causes that the poster has served: political, ideological, artistic and commercial. Drawn from such diverse sources as Art Nouveau, Secession, Dada, Constructivism, Bauhaus, Futurism and De Stijl, the 200 richly illustrated posters presented in this book, accompanying the Walker Art Center exhibition, illuminate the ways in which the modern poster has brought the most daring elements of the avant garde into the cultural mainstream...