A Book Of The Poster

A Book of the Poster

A Book of the Poster

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. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... defect. No French poster designer is either ashamed to sign his drawings, or is precluded from doing so by the advertiser. He does not consider he is debasing his art in descending to the decoration of the hoardings; but rather that, in giving his best, he is ennobling the poster and spreading abroad a knowledge of the beautiful. In this account of French posters and their makers many names must necessarily be omitted, but those mentioned are fairly typical examples ofthe best practisers of French art. Collectors will perhaps miss such names as Lorrain, Gervais, Gerbault, Meunier, Anquetin, Artigue, Beylac, Bonnard, Choubrac, Clairin, Forain, Fraipont, Gausson, Giran, Goissard, Guerard, Guyot, juillerat, Lefevre, Lepur, Lunel, Marten, Michele, Nelaton, Oge, Sinet, Vallotton, Verneuil, and a score of other industrious workers who have contributed delightful examples of their art to posterdom. These artists individually have not been prolific, and their work presents no features that have not been fully illustrated in the references to the posters of their busier confreres. XII SPANIsH Pos'rERs THE art of the poster is now well established in the Peninsula, where a flourishing school is located in Barcelona, the acknowledged centre of all art-movement in Spain; and taking into consideration the geographical position of that city, it is no doubt safe to assume that it has received its art-stimulus from its northern neighbour, France, the birthplace and nursery of the artistic poster. The work of these Spanish assichistes is so good, and shows so much variety, resource, _and originality, that it will be profitable to examine it in detail. Of Spanish placardists, undoubtedly A. de Riquer stands first...

A Book of the Poster