Review: Posters
From exotic wonderland to self-determination
Leaving through this compendium of 900 posters, many produced in Africa but some in Europe, I…
Prints of Persia: Islamic World Posters
Organised by the Iranian Academy of Art in association with the Saba Artistic and Cultural Center, this new event provided an opportunity to see artists not only from Iran, but also from Syria, Qatar, Oman, Yemen, the Sudan and elsewhere, whose work is rarely shown at poster biennials.
Poster man and boy
Paul Rennie’s Tom Eckersley: A Mid-century Modern Master is a fascinating account of Eckersley’s prolific output …
Captain litho
Barnett Freedman (1901-56) was an artist / designer from a Jewish immigrant family who grasped…
Minard’s retirement plans
Sandra Rendgen’s The Minard System re-contextualises in book form for the first time the entire…
Action to the word
Dutch Posters 1997–2017 (Lecturis, €41.00, $59, £45), the successor to Dutch Posters 1960–1996, is an…
Body of work
In our digital age, when every image is available and mutable, when pornography is commonplace…
Guts and gutters
The Brazilian art director and designer Bea Feitler (1938-82) said of magazines that ‘you can’t…
Weimar volumes
The musical Cabaret gave a popular view of Berlin between the two world wars; the…
Fighting back with pictures
This is the third book which Liz McQuiston has written on graphic protest in the…