The Art Nouveau Poster - Hardcover

Weill, Alain

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0711237182 ISBN 13: 9780711237186

Publisher: Frances Lincoln, 2015

Synopsis

In July 1881, bill-posting became legal in Paris. The result was an explosion of creativity over three glorious decades recognised as the golden age of poster advertising, stirring together elements of new printing technology, William Morrisâ?? attempts to reconcile medieval artistry with modern industry, the influence of newly-open Japan on European engraving and aesthetics, and the talents of artists as diverse as Jules Cheret, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Alphonse Mucha and Aubrey Beardsley.

The Art Nouveau Poster is the most comprehensive survey to date of this vivid and much loved subject, featuring over 400 illustrations from all of the major European centres, Britain and the United States, with an informative and accessible text. A final chapter looks at the revival of interest in the 1960s following major retrospective exhibitions of Alphonse Mucha and Aubrey Beardsley, and features work from the psychedelic era.

 

About this title

About the Author:

ALAIN WEILL is an art historian and internationally recognized expert in graphic arts and advertising. He is President of the Jury of EPICA, the European Advertising Award, and is the author of several books and exhibition catalogues on the subject of graphic art and publicity posters. He lives in France.

About this edition

• Publisher: Frances Lincoln
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0711237182
• ISBN 13: 9780711237186
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304