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Shire library volume no. 658
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Railway posters have huge appeal for the modern audience, but just what explains this continuing interest? Enduring images of iconic locomotives, bathing beauties and characters such as Sunny South Sam are testament to the creativity of the railway company marketing departments and the posters tell us not only about railway history and technology, architectural and engineering accomplishments, but also about the cultural and social significance of...
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English
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"A novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer, and the art they make that changes their lives forever. Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge--aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner--is determined to make it through yet another sad summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke, a talented artist who has just moved into his grandmother's unhappy house and who is as lonely and awkward as Frankie is. Romantic...
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Princeton University Press
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English
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Throughout history, artists and citizens have turned to protest art as a means of demonstrating social and political discontent. From the earliest broadsheets in the 1500s to engravings, photolithographs, prints, posters, murals, graffiti, and political cartoons, these endlessly inventive graphic forms have symbolized and spurred on power struggles, rebellions, spirited causes, and calls to arms. Spanning continents and centuries, Protest! presents...
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Feminist Press at the City University of New York
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English
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"Spanning nearly three thousand years of history-from the ancient Secession of the Plebs to the 2017 protests of the Confederate Soldiers Monument in Durham; from Sojourner Truth to Naoto Matsumura-the posters in Celebrate People's History pay tribute to the long-standing human legacy of revolution, activism, and grassroots organizing. In this book, contemporary artists imagine often-overlooked events and figures in movements for racial justice, women's...
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University of Iowa Digital Library Services
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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The collection has hundreds of government-issued posters promoting services, programs, and initiatives to benefit the public. It provides a complement to textual research and academic coursework in areas such as public policy, history, communication studies, and health sciences. Although the bulk of the collection spans the 1970s through the 1990s, it also includes posters from pre-World War II through the present and crosses the full range of federal...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
©1992
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English
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Political posters are historical documents. They open windows to the conditions and conflicts of an earlier time. In their designs and slogans we see how governments and political factions responded to economic crises, social change. and ideological and armed conflict, and how they sought to sway the perceptions and feelings of the man and woman in the street. Posters are also aesthetic objects. Their composition, color and symbols are both separate...
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English
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A profusely illustrated survey of posters from the French Revolution to the present. Posters are found in public places all over the world. They are usually visually striking, designed to attract the attention of passers-by and entice them to purchase a particular product or service, make them aware of a political viewpoint, or attend a specific event. This remarkable study is an overview of posters throughout history, as well as a representative...
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DK Pub
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English
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"From 1962's Dr. No to 2012's Skyfall, this lavish film-by-film guide, written by Bond Production Designer Dennis Gassner, boasts the most impressive visual collection of James Bond movie posters to date. Featuring a gallery of rare and sought-after posters, as well as spectacular unused concept artwork, and unique teasers and lobby cards from virtually every country where Bond movies have screened, this is a gorgeous collection of the images that...