This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...and even at times vulgar. Fences and walls flamed with elaborate sheets advertising contemporary theatrical productions, but all were presented in a manner deadeningly literal and thoroughly hopeless in point of conception and design. So depressing, indeed, were these efforts, that one refuses to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...and even at times vulgar. Fences and walls flamed with elaborate sheets advertising contemporary theatrical productions, but all were presented in a manner deadeningly literal and thoroughly hopeless in point of conception and design. So depressing, indeed, were these efforts, that one refuses to resuscitate even a single specimen for illustration. Since the present discussion deals rather with analysis of design than with a history of progress in mechanical reproduction, the posters of the "Stone Age" may be said to be utterly unsuccessful, as such, no matter how much the presentation of the art may subsequently have benefitted from the patient and capable efforts of those early engravers. Some of the larger publishing houses (notably Harper's) were the first to exploit real posters in America, and with the genius of Edward Penfield and Will Bradley as the moving spirit, posters took on a new life and began to hold a new meaning for the public mind. People watched for these quaint and dashing conceits, for Mr. Penfield has always combined a certain Parisian chic with a London poise of aristocracy and refinement, and blended the two by some curious psychological sleight of hand into an expression of the best that is in America. His girls, though often homely, were plainly refined, and always interesting. His young men were ascetic of feature and informal of raiment, but always well-bred and well mannered. They drove in hansoms, or walked briskly across country with their dogs, or faced a raw fall wind on the golf links. They all had a cer tain character of their own, these poster-people of Mr. Penfield's mind, and most important, awoke in the American public a taste for better things. In his "Poster Calendar, i8gf is to be...
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Fair. No Jacket. Size: 7 1/2" x 10"; FAIR / NO DUST JACKET. Former Library Book. Book has been rebound in hardcover library binding. xvi, 386 pp., illus. w/ 42 tipped-in color plates and 120 b&w. Book has been rebound in hardcover library binding. Text unmarked except for usual library treatments. Pages yellowed. Water stain on fly leaf. Frontispiece and title page loose and laid in, initial pages loose and laid in from foreword through page 5. Tape repair to chapter 1 title page. Light brown cloth boards lettered in black at spine, boards lightly soiled, edges rubbed, corners worn to boards. Joints and hinges loose, binding tender, but intact and holding.
