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The European Poster 1881–1938
fundACIón Museo PICAsso MáLAGA
Introduction by José Lebrero stals. Text by Carlos Pérez, dara kiese,
Luigi Cavadini, Anne-Marie sauvage, Aymeric Perroy, katalin bakos.
the modern poster dates back to around 1870, when color lithography had been
sufficiently perfected to permit mass production. artists such as toulouse-Lautrec
and Jules Chéret were quick to perceive and embrace the possibilities of the poster
as a form, as means of disseminating their work and as a source of income. new
movements in late nineteenth-century art, such as art nouveau and Symbolism,
also adapted their respective styles to commercial demands, and their graphic
power was such that major poster surveys were held as early as 1884. among
the genre’s earliest innovators, Chéret is considered to have been especially
influential commercially, for having first used seductive depictions of women as
an advertising ploy. Later on, in the early days of the Soviet avant-garde, artists
like rodchenko and Klutsis were also to apply their graphic know-how to the
poster form, in the service of a new communist russia and its booming industries.
this magnificent paperback volume reproduces 200 posters from the last decades
of the nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, in full color. the works
have been gathered by expert Carlos pérez from european museums and renowned
international private collections. among the 90-plus artists included here are
Chéret, ramón Casas, toulouse-Lautrec, Cassandre, paul Colin, Jean Carlu,
Herbert Bayer, otto Baumberger, vladimir Lebedev, alexander rodchenko,
man ray, robert Béreny and Fortunato Depero.
978-84-938427-8-9
pbk, 8.25 x 11 in. / 336 pgs / 200 color / 30 b&w.
U.S. $55.00 CDn $55.00
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Posters: Irony, Imagination and Eroticism in
Advertising 1895–1960
sILvAnA edITorIALe
Text by dario Cimorelli.
In the closing decade of the nineteenth century, the modern age invaded the city streets of Italy in the
form of advertising posters. Bouquets of monkeys, elephants, masks, automobiles and elegantly—and
sometimes scantily—clad ladies suddenly blossomed upon walls everywhere, indoors and out, visually
grabbing the attention of an Italian public interested in the new commercial products that promised a
new way of living. these advertisements were executed by some of the greatest illustrators of the day—
Leonetto Cappiello, achille Lucien mauzan, marcello Dudovich, plinio Codognato, Leopoldo metlicovitz
and gino Boccasile—who together produced a medley of playful, allusive, ironic and
experimental imagery unmatched by any other european or american posters of that era. the current
scarcity of Italian posters on the market today makes this lush publication all the more valuable for its
depiction of a legacy in poster design.
978-88-366-2252-8
Clth, 10 x 12 in. / 288 pgs / 250 color.
U.S. $75.00 CDn $75.00
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The most complete Chagall overview in print
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Chagall
Museo ThYssen-borneMIszA
foreword by Meret Meyer. Text by Jean-Louis Prat,
ekaterina selezneva, Angela Lampe, ángeles Caso.
marc Chagall is justly famed as one of modernism’s greatest
colorists, and its most articulate painter of dispossession,
exile and human joy. Chagall also uniquely reconciled
the motifs and concerns of Jewish culture with his strange
amalgam of Symbolism, Fauvism and Cubism. His lifespan
encompassed two world wars, the october revolution of
1917 and continual uprooting, with lengthy spells in paris,
moscow and new York; although he painted the ravages
of these wars and the sufferings of the Jewish people, and
although his art is steeped in the melancholia of exile, it
never ceased to affirm life and to praise it.
this beautifully produced volume, with its abundance of
color plates and first-rate scholarship, celebrates Chagall
in all his diversity, reproducing paintings, book illustrations
to the Bible and works by gogol and La Fontaine,
stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and prints.
these works are contextualized in essays by Chagall
scholars meret meyer, Jean-Louis prat, ekaterina Selezneva,
angela Lampe and Ángeles Caso, and in an extensive
chronology of the artist’s life, amply illustrated
with photographs from his personal album.
Marc Chagall (1887–1985) was born in Liozna, near
vitebsk, Belarus, a major center of Hassidic culture in
the russian empire. In 1906 he moved to St petersburg,
russia, enrolling in art school before moving to paris in
1910, where apollinaire, Delaunay and Léger were among
his earliest advocates. Chagall’s reputation began to
grow during his moscow years (1914–1922), but it was not
until some five years after his return to paris that his first
major exhibitions took place. two years into the Second
World War, Chagall went into exile again, living in new
York until 1948. the major triumph of his last decades
was perhaps his ceiling for the paris opera (1963), which
astounded both critics and the wider public.
978-84-15113-19-5
Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 328 pgs / 279 color / 42 b&w.
U.S. $85.00 CDn $85.00
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