London Transport Posters

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-09-04
Publisher(s): Independent Pub Group
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Summary

London Transport Posters celebrates a century of outstanding graphic design commissioned by the Underground, London Transport, and its present day successor, Transport for London. The book explores the organization's pioneering role as Britain's greatest patron of poster art, a unique role developed in the early twentieth century under the visionary leadership of Frank Pick. The selected artworks and posters, many published here for the first time, reflect a dazzling variety of period styles and techniques, produced by an extraordinary range of artists and designers attracted by the Underground's world-wide reputation. The resulting legacy includes works by practioners as diverse as John Hassall, Edward McKnight Kauffer, Laura Knight, Man Ray, Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland, Abram Games, William Roberts, Howard Hodgkin and David Shrigley. Drawing on newly researched sources in the archives of London Transport Museum and Transport for London, the book discusses and illustrates the different styles and themes emerging from the posters over the last hundred years. These include the contrasting approaches of commercial graphic designers and the group of modernist avant-garde artists commissioned by the Underground in the 1920s and 1930s; the use of posters to support the expansion of the Tube by attracting new audiences and selling an aspirational vision of suburbia; the important role of women in the development of poster advertising both as designers and consumers; the different uses of the transport poster during two world wars; the changing fortunes of the poster in the post-war period; and the public view of posters from 1908 to the present day. More than 250 images are drawn from the London Transport Museum's collection of over 5000 posters and artworks, which represents the most complete graphic archive of its kind to be assembled by a single organization over so long a period anywhere in the world. London Transport Posters: A Century of Art and Design is richly illustrated with examples of posters from all periods, and will be an invaluable reference book and visual resource for all those with an interest in twentieth-century design.

Table of Contents

Foreword
A Personal Tribute
Introduction
Timeline
Pictorial Posters in Britain at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Appearance Values: Frank Pick and the Art of London Transport
Artist and Printer: Poster Production 1900-70
The New Publicity: Design Reform, Commercial Art and Design Education 1910-1939
Selling the Underground Suburbs 1908-33
Fashioning the Tube: Women and Transport Posters in the 1920s and 1930s
'Pictures with a Sting': London Underground and the Inter-War Modernist Poster
Underground Posters in Wartime
The Roller Coaster Ride: London Transport Posters since 1945
Art for All? The Reception of Underground Posters
Bibliography
Index
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London Transport Posters celebrates a century of outstanding graphic design commissioned by the Underground, London Transport, and its present-day successor, Transport for London.

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