The Zeon Files: Art and Design of Historic Route 66 Signs
Language: English
Published by University of New Mexico Press, 2016
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- Title
- The Zeon Files: Art and Design of Historic Route 66 Signs
- Author
- Childs, Mark C.; Babcock, Ellen D.
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- As new
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0826356028
- ISBN 13
- 9780826356024
- Item weight
- 313 grams
- Dimensions
- 17.78 centimeters width by 24.77 centimeters height by 1.27 centimeters depth
Winner of the 2017 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for History Book - New Mexico
In the mid-twentieth century Eddie's Inferno Cocktail Lounge, Bunny Bread, Paris Shoe Shop, and many other businesses throughout New Mexico and the Southwest displayed eye-catching roadside signs created by the Zeon Corporation. These works of commercial art featured unique designs, irregular shapes, dynamic compositions, and neon light. The legendary fiesta dancer at the Albuquerque Terrace Drive-In theater, for example, was well-known for the grace of its lines, its enormous size, and its flashing neon skirt. Created during a time before the simplified icons of major chains, many of these culturally significant artworks no longer exist. The Zeon Files rescues these historic artifacts from obscurity, presenting a collection of the working drawings of historic Route 66-era signs. In addition to presenting a visually rich archive, the authors discuss the working methods of design and construction and the craft of drafting techniques during this innovative era of American sign making.
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About the Author
Ellen D. Babcock is an associate professor of sculpture at the University of New Mexico. She has exhibited at numerous New Mexico and California venues, including the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe and the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery and the Southern Exposure Gallery in San Francisco. She founded Friends of the Orphan Signs (FOS), an organization that sites collaboratively produced public art in abandoned signage.
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