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poster
poster placard designed to be posted in some public place for purposes of commercial announcement or propaganda. Advertising makes wide use of posters, as do charitable and political organizations. In ancient civilizations a simple form of written public announcement was used. The invention of... Read more |
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Alphonse Mucha
Alphonse Mucha , 1860-1939, Czech artist. Mucha's art nouveau style, characterized by twisting, swirling flower and hair motifs, set the style for poster art for a generation. He created celebrated posters for Sarah Bernhardt and designed sets and costumes for her plays. In his later works,... Read more |
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J. W. Beggarstaff
‘Beggarstaff, J. & W.’ (or ‘Beggarstaff Brothers’). Pseudonym used by the brothers-in-law William Nicholson and James Pryde for their poster designs. ‘They joined forces in 1894, and for the next five years they produced a series of posters which by their... Read more |
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Jules Cheret
Chéret, Jules (b Paris, 31 May 1836; d Nice, 23 Sept. 1932). French lithographer, designer, and painter, the first notable specialist in poster design. Chéret was the son of a typographer and trained as a lithographer. He designed his first poster in 1858 (for Offenbach's Orpheus in the... Read more |
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E. McKnight Kauffer
Kauffer, E. McKnight (1890–1954). American designer and painter, active mainly in England. After studying in San Francisco, Chicago, and Paris, he settled in London in 1914. He was a member of Group X and of the Cumberland Market Group, but he virtually abandoned easel painting in 1921 and is... Read more |
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec , 1864-1901, French painter and lithographer, b. Albi. Son of a wealthy nobleman, Lautrec fell and broke both legs when he was a child. His permanently stunted growth has traditionally been seen as the result of this accident, but more recently doctors have theorized that... Read more |
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American Museum of Magic
American Museum of Magic Established in 1978 by Robert Lund, a collector of books, movies, recordings, posters, and apparatus associated with conjuring magic and magicians. The collection includes some of the apparatus of the great magician Harry Houdini. The museum also issues a periodic... Read more |
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James Montgomery Flagg
James Montgomery Flagg 1877-1960, American painter, illustrator, and author, b. Pelham Manor, N.Y. He studied in New York City, in England, and in Paris. Returning to New York, he rapidly won a reputation as an illustrator of versatility, vivacity, and technical skill, contributing to St.... Read more |
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Sir William Nicholson
Sir William Nicholson 1872-1949, English woodcut artist, illustrator, and painter. The striking contrasts of black and white of his woodcutting technique were used to great effect on posters, on which he collaborated with his brother-in-law James Pryde. They became known as the Beggerstaff... Read more |
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Amy Robsart
Amy Robsart , 1532-60, maiden name of the wife of Robert Dudley, later earl of Leicester , a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I of England. When Lady Dudley was found dead at the foot of a staircase in Cumnor Hall, Berkshire, rumor had it that her husband had arranged her murder so that he might be free... Read more |
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subversive warfare
...in particular, made lavish use of posters, to instruct civilians in what to...uses made by the occupiers of their power to punish. It was neither very difficult nor very dangerous to deface posters, by simply tearing them down or painting... |
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war artists
...Another important wartime role for artists lay in the design of posters, often a useful arm of propaganda. The German slogan Feind hört...on loans, which in turn depended largely on the efforts of poster designers. See alsoculture sections of the major powers. M. R. D. ... |
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Kitchener, Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl
...secretary of state for war. Far from being merely a great poster, as Lloyd George claimed, he was a prescient strategist. He recognized that a conflict between the European great powers would not end quickly but would degenerate into a long war... |
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France
...August 1944 a Provisional government under de Gaulle took power. It was formally recognized by the Allies in October 1944, and France ended the Second World War as one of the victorious powers.2. Domestic life, economy, and war effortFollowing the Nazi...winning the propaganda war (see ... |
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Wilson, Woodrow
...with his greatest challenge. Both the Allies and the Central Powers tried to cut off the flow of American products to the other side. The British...production, it also rallied homefront support for the war through posters, speeches, and bond drives, and suppressed dissident voices... |
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Office of War Information
...creating and disseminating pro-Allied Powers propaganda. Among its wide-ranging...and the review and design of government posters. It was made up of two photographic units...until the end of World War II, government posters looked like magazine illustrations, and... |
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POSTER BOY
...earring to a shoe to champagne to a typewriter. Is the art of poster making dead? Our new poster board is the Internet. But posters still have power and there are still a few poster makers who do it. There's a guy named Robbie Conal who is... |
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POSTERS: Poster boys.
...laments the lack of poster opportunities for graphic...relegated to creating the posters seen in the corridors...work. He says, 'The power of posters seems to be diminished...It is hard to prove posters are effective compared...results.' He ... |
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Poster power
...moulding. When considering the power of these posters, it's easy to forget that the...bloody civil war that followed it. Poster-power helped change its image. By the...the heart of the travel trade. Posters produced by Wilkinson and other... |
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Poster boys-n-girls.
...chapter, 'The art of the poster', which touches upon...challenges of hand-painted posters, their demise and advent...technicians. Some stand out posters include Zehreela Insaan...free love and flower power artistry; and Kidar...The black and white ... |
 "The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)")
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POSTER POWER.(Special Sections)
...its first season with a commemorative poster featuring O'Keeffe's Music -- Pink...companion, Juan Hamilton, and that first poster run started the surge. "She wasn't the first artist to strike a vein with posters, of course," said Daniel Kosharek...brilliant O'Keeffe image ... |
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India: Poster Women
...country. For instance, a poster showing a bride seated amidst...bride comes for free). The poster belongs to Swayat Mahila Andolan...violence and exploitation. The power of women's leadership is clear from several posters. In one poster, for ... |
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Contentious political posters taken down in Beirut
...Muslim factions took down their posters simultaneously around Beirut...territory or put down rivals. So posters of the top men in the main...country has been torn in a power struggle between pro- and...based on religious sects, the posters could be seen as ... |
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Poster Perfect
...plagiarized by hundreds of poster artists. It worked then...because it epitomizes the power poster: a simple, direct message...a simple, direct image. "Posters American Style" is misnamed...points out, the pictorial poster, which supplanted ... |
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Posters to knock walls down and raise activists' spirits up. (Northland...
...1960s. Silk-screen poster art became popular in...were hired to make posters for government agencies...Northland distributes posters that not merely reflect...to feel their own power and ability," he said...War, we turned down posters that ... |
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POSTER ART OF WORLD WAR II
...1945, the Allied powers celebrated "Victory...including patriotic posters. Poster Art had been introduced...success of World War I poster art. He would send...the time created posters that were vital...most successful ... |
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