"IMAGES OF AN ERA: THE AMERICAN POSTER 1945-1975". Collectif. Editions National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington D.C. 1975. Imprimé en Angleterre. Petit in-4 carré, dos droit, couverture souple cartonnée noire sous jaquette illustrée en couleurs (état d'usage). Non paginé (300p). Textes en anglais de Margaret Cogswell, Milton Glaser, Dore Ashton, Alan Gowans, introduction par John Garrigan, illustré de 257 reproductions photographiques couleurs, hors texte, d'affiches. Ouvrage réalisé dans le cadre de l'exposition éponyme itinérante aux Corcoran Gallery of art, Washington D.C., du 21 Novembre 1975 au 04 Janvier 1976 ; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, du 02 Février au 19 Mars 1976 ; Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, du 1er Avril au 02 Mai 1976 ; Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York, du 22 Mai au 31 Juin 1976.

 

"The poster, an immediate message and distillation of form and idea, has always been an indicator of culture. Often, in addition to its intended purpose, it tells us something of its social, political, and aesthetic climate. This exhibition concentrates on the post-World War Il period of the American poster, a period unprecedented in this country in its variety of purposes, forms, and methods. Works from the 1940s and 1950s indicate some of the styles and applications and serve as a preface to the resurgence of the poster in the 1960s. The modern illustrated poster appeared during a period of rebellion in the arts in the late nineteenth century. Its full flowering in the art nouveau period in Paris was indeed dazzling and dramatic. One of the tenets of the art nouveau movement was the removal of the distinction between the fine and applied arts. The most visible and immediately successful accomplishment of this purpose was the poster… The success of the poster as advertising was stunningly apparent in these early years. But its full power to inform and persuade was firmly established in times of crisis. This role of the poster was to be discovered soon after the decline of the art nouveau movement with the advent of World War l. The poster as a political instrument reached full maturity during and following the Russian Revolution..." John Garrigan.

 

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