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- London transport posters : a century of art and design / edited by David Bownes and Oliver Green, with contributions by Jonathan Black, David Bownes, Emmanuelle Dirix, Claire Dobbin, Catherine Flood, Oliver Green, Bex Lewis, Alan Powers, Paul Rennie and Brian Webb
Book
Record ID:
Editor:
Publication date:
- 2008
Publisher:
- Lund Humphries in association with London Transport Museum
Place of publication:
- Aldershot
ISBN:
- 9780853319849
Extent:
- 240 p.
Summary etc:
- Book published in conjunction with 'The art of the poster' exhibition held at London Transport Museum 16 October 2008 - 31 March 2009.
Explores the posters commissioned from 1908 to the present day by Transport for London, London Transport, the Underground Group and other predecessor companies. Includes how the companies produced their publicity posters and their impact.
Foreward, a tribute to Frank Pick, by Tom O'Toole. Timeline of London transport and the organisation's advertising and publicity from the 19th century onwards.
Chapters:
Pictorial posters in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century / Catherine Flood
Appearance values : Frank Pick and the art of London transport / Oliver Green
Artist and printer : poster production 1900-70 / Alan Powers
The new publicity : design reform, commercial art and design education 1910-39 / Paul Rennie
Selling the Underground suburbs 1908-33 / David Bownes
Fashioning the Tube : women and transport posters in the 1920s and 1930s / Emmanuelle Dirix
Pictures with a sting : the London Underground and the interwar modernist poster / Jonathan Black
Underground posters in wartime / Bex Lewis and David Bownes
The roller coaster ride : London transport posters since 1945 / Brian Webb
Art for all? The reception of Underground posters / Claire Dobbin
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Shelf reference:
- Reference B822 Bow