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Design for military vol.3

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Collected are hundreds of American wartime posters and paraphernalia that deal with issues of war on the home front and assisting the war effort; everything from enlistment, rationing and wartime production, to civilian training, women’s employment, war bonds and the dangers of loose talk.

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Beauty is in the street: a visual record of the May '68 uprising

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In May 1968, thousands of workers and students took to the streets of Paris, provoking an unprecedented wave of strikes, walkouts and demonstrations. The confrontations between police and protesters led to a general strike of eleven million workers that brought the country to a virtual standstill and nearly toppled Charles de Gaulle's government. The faculty and student body of the Ecole des Beaux Arts were among the strikers, and a number of the students met spontaneously in the college's lithographic department to produce the first poster of the revolt. From this initiative was born the Atelier Populaire, a collective of print shops that produced hundreds of posters to encourage the protestors and to report on police brutality. These posters included many of the often Situationist-inspired mottos for which May '68 is remembered today, such as “Be young and shut up” and “return to normal” (accompanied by a picture of a herd of sheep). Beauty Is in the Street reproduces more than 200 of these posters in full color, which have since become landmarks in political art and graphic design.

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Edward Bawden's London

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Whether he was creating book illustrations, advertising posters, or college murals, Edward Bawden (1903-1989), a one-time Official War Artist who documented WWII in watercolor, found his greatest muse in the city of London. This book, with almost 200 striking images, shows Bawden's unique view of the city in prints, posters, drawings, paintings, murals, and advertising material. The illustrations include early work executed while a student in the early 1920s; the Morley College murals carried out in partnership with the well-known artist Eric Ravilious; advertising work for London Transport, Fortnum & Mason, Twinings Teas, Shell, and Westminster Bank; Bawden's famous mural for the Lion & Unicorn Pavilion at the 1951 Festival of Britain; and some of his finest series of linocuts including London Monuments and London Markets.

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Fanzines: la révolution du DIY

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Depuis plus de 70 ans, les fanzines sont un terrain d'expression privilégié pour des cultures alternatives. Ils abordent des sujets aussi variés que la science-fiction, les comics, la musique, la politique, le féminisme... Avec plus de 750 illustrations, cet ouvrage présente des publications pertinentes de l'histoire du fanzine. Depuis les premiers fanzines faits à la main jusqu'aux e-zines numériques contemporains. Des fanzines punk cultes jusqu'à des publications qui ont ensuite évolué en magazines renommés, les collections présentées au long des pages expriment toute la richesse d'un univers subversif et débordant d'énergie.

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Windows on the war: soviet TASS posters at home and abroad 1941-1945

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TASS posters were created by a large collective of Soviet writers, printers, and artists, including such notables as Mikhail Cheremnykh, Nikolai Denisovskii, the Kukryniksy, and Pavel Sokolov-Skalia. Often six feet tall and always striking and bold, these stenciled posters were printed and placed daily in windows for the public to see. They were also sent abroad to serve as international cultural "ambassadors," rallying Allied and neutral nations to the Soviet cause. Drawn from the Art Institute of Chicago''s collection, as well as other private and public holdings, these TASS posters have not been seen since World War II. An international team of scholars presents the TASS posters both as unique historical objects and as artworks that reveal how preeminent artists of the day used unconventional technical and visual means to contribute to the war effort, marking a major chapter in the history of design and propaganda. Generously illustrated, the book presents photographs, documentary materials, and memorabilia in meaningful juxtapositions with images of the TASS posters. Also included are documents illuminating the expression of Russian cultural life in the United States during the war, opening a fascinating window onto the war along the Eastern Front.

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Esthétique du livre d'artiste:une introduction à l'art contemporain

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Cet ouvrage rend compte de la naissance et du développement du livre d'artiste aux États-Unis et en Europe en relation étroite avec les avant-gardes des années...› Lire la suite soixante et soixante-dix : poésie concrète et visuelle, Fluxus, Art minimal, Art conceptuel, Arte povera, Art narratif, Land Art, art de la performance ou du happening, notamment. Parce qu'il est inséparable de l'émergence de ces formes inédites de la création qui vont constituer l'art dit "contemporain", le livre d'artiste est une excellente introduction à la compréhension de ses principaux enjeux comme à la diversité de ses manifestations. Ce livre constitue la synthèse la plus large à ce jour de la production internationale. Depuis sa première édition en 1997, il s'est imposé en France et à l'étranger comme l'étude de référence sur le sujet. Pour cette nouvelle édition, le texte, mis à jour et augmenté, s'est enrichi de nombreuses reproductions. Plus de sept cents livres y sont analysés, par près de quatre cents artistes dont les pionniers Ben, Robert Barry, Christian Boltanski, Marcel Broodthaers, Herman de Vries, Robert Filliou, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Allan Kaprow, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Maurizio Nannucci, Dieter Roth, Edward Ruscha, Daniel Spoerri, Wolf Vostell, Lawrence Weiner.

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The European poster 1881-1938

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The modern poster dates back to around 1870, when color lithography had been sufficiently perfected to permit mass production. Artists such as Toulouse-Lautrec and Jules Chéret were quick to perceive and embrace the possibilities of the poster as a form, as means of disseminating their work and as a source of income. New movements in late nineteenth-century art, such as Art Nouveau and Symbolism, also adapted their respective styles to commercial demands, and their graphic power was such that major poster surveys were held as early as 1884. Later on, in the early days of the Soviet avant-garde, artists like Rodchenko and Klutsis were also to apply their graphic know-how to the poster form, in the service of a new communist Russia and its booming industries. This boxed volume reproduces 175 posters from the last decades of the nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, loose-leaf and in full color. The works have been gathered by expert Carlos Pérez from European museums and renowned international private collections. An accompanying paperback book, housed within the box, provides an historical overview. Among the 90-plus artists included here are Chéret, Ramón Casas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre Bonnard, Alfons Mucha, Henri Matisse, Cassandre, Paul Colin, Jean Carlu, Giacomo Balla, Herbert Bayer, Otto Baumberger, John Heartfield, Vladimir Lebedev, Alexander Rodchenko, Man Ray, Kurt Schwitters, Oskar Schlemmer, Gustav Klutsis, Robert Béreny and Fortunato Depero.

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Poster collection 24: the magic of things

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The Magic of Things explores a former advertising strategy of Swiss product posters in which banal, everyday objects—butter, a sewing machine, or shoes—are presented as desirable objects enticing us to buy. Free from any further contextualization, the objects acquire a sensual presence and magical aura. The product poster had its heyday in Switzerland in the 1940s with designers such as Niklaus Stoecklin, Peter Birkhauser, or Otto Baumberger. As consumer society developed, however, the exclusive focus on the product and the brand name was no longer enough—in advertising, the feelings associated with the object as it related to life grew increasingly important. Today it is in the cultural poster that the magical depiction of things is experiencing a kind of renaissance.

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Altered and Adorned: using Renaissance prints in daily life

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Today Renaissance-era prints are typically preserved behind glass or in solander boxes in museums, but these decorative objects were once a central part of everyday life. Altered and Adorned is a delightful, surprising look at how prints were used to create sewing patterns, affixed on walls, glued into albums and books, and in some instances even annotated, handcoloured, or cut apart. This volume introduces readers to the experimental world of printmaking in the mid-15th and 16th centuries and the array of objects it inspired, from illustrated books and sculptures to etched armour and printed sundials. It features many never-before-published treasures from the Art Institute of Chicago's rich permanent collection, along with essays on such topics as three-dimensional scientific prints and how famous paintings were reproduced on functional objects such as playing cards

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Invention, construction, communication: revues d'avant-garde de la collection Alberto Sartoris

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Parmi les abondantes ressources du fonds Alberto Sartoris conservé aux Archives de la construction moderne, la collection de revues d'art et d'architecture constitue un ensemble capital. Son secteur le plus spectaculaire est celui des "revues d'avant-garde" des années 1920 et 1930. Vitrines de l'identité propre aux différents groupes qui les publient et de la communauté qui les lie, elles sont le support d'une expérimentation visuelle foisonnante (typographie, construction de l'image). C'est elle qui justifie d'abord la sélection présentée ici, composée de couvertures emblématiques de quelque soixante titres célèbres ou - le plus souvent - méconnus. Mais ces images témoignent également d'un processus caractéristique, où les programmes utopistes et totalisants de l'avant-garde historique s'abîment dans la Crise pour se subordonner aux réalités d'une "architecture moderne" en voie d'institutionnalisation.