London Transport Posters

LUND HUMPHRIES PUBLISHERS LTDISBN: 9780853319856

A Century of Art and Design

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Sale price$76.99
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Edited by David Bownes, Oliver Green, Contributions by Jonathan Black, David Bownes, Emmanuelle Dirix, Claire Dobbin, Catherine Flood, Oliver Green, Bex Lewis, Alan Powers
Imprint: LUND HUMPHRIES PUBLISHERS LTD
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Format:
PAPERBACK
Dimensions:
260 x 220 mm
Weight:
1020 g
Pages:
240

Description

Contents: Foreword: Frank Pick: A Personal Tribute, Tim O'Toole; Introduction, David Bownes and Oliver Green; Timeline; Chapter 1: Pictorial Posters in Britain at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Catherine Flood; Chapter 2: Appearance Values: Frank Pick and the Art of London Transport, Oliver Green; Chapter 3: Artist and Printer: Poster Production 1900-70, Alan Powers; Chapter 4: The New Publicity: Design Reform, Commercial Art and Design Education 1910-1939, Paul Rennie; Chapter 5: Selling the Underground Suburbs 1908-33, David Bownes; Chapter 6: Fashioning the Tube: Women and Transport Posters in the 1920s and 1930s, Emmanuelle Dirix; Chapter 7: 'Pictures with a Sting': London Underground and the Inter-War Modernist Poster, Jonathan Black; Chapter 8: Underground Posters in Wartime, Bex Lewis and David Bownes; Chapter 9: The Roller Coaster Ride: London Transport Posters since 1945, Brian Webb; Chapter 10: Art for All? The Reception of Underground Posters, Claire Dobbin; Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index.

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