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Informationen zum Autor David Bownes is Senior Curator at London Transport Museum. His recent publications include The Metropolitan Railway (2005). Oliver Green is Head Curator at London Transport Museum and has written and lectured extensively on London Transport's design history. Jonathan Black is a Senior Research Fellow in History of Art at Dorich House Museum, Kingston University, with a special interest in early twentieth-century European art, cultural and military history. Emmanuelle Dirix is a design historian and associate lecturer at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London and the London College of Fashion. Claire Dobbin is an art historian and Project Curator at London Transport Museum. Catherine Flood is a Curator of Prints at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London with responsibility for the Museum's poster collection. Bex Lewis is an Honorary Research Fellow in History at the University of Winchester. Alan Powers is Professor of Architecture and Cultural History at the University of Greenwich and has written extensively on twentieth-century British art and design. Paul Rennie is Head of Context in Graphic Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. Brian Webb is a practising designer who, with his former agency Trickett and Webb, designed a number of posters for London Underground. Klappentext London Transport Posters celebrates a century of outstanding graphic design commissioned by the Underground, London Transport, and its present-day successor, Transport for London. 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 theme Zusammenfassung Celebrates a century of outstanding graphic design commissioned by the Underground, London Transport, and its successor, Transport for London. This book explores the organisation's pioneering role as Britain's greatest patron of poster art. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Foreword: Frank Pick: A Personal Tribute! Tim O'Toole; Introduction! David Bownes and Oliver Green; Timeline; Chapter 1: Pictorial Posters in Britain at the Turn of the Twentieth Century! Catherine Flood; Chapter 2: Appearance Values: Frank Pick and the Art of London Transport! Oliver Green; Chapter 3: Artist and Printer: Poster Production 1900-70! Alan Powers; Chapter 4: The New Publicity: Design Reform! Commercial Art and Design Education 1910-1939! Paul Rennie; Chapter 5: Selling the Underground Suburbs 1908-33! David Bownes; Chapter 6: Fashioning the Tube: Women and Transport Posters in the 1920s and 1930s! Emmanuelle Dirix; Chapter 7: 'Pictures with a Sting': London Underground and the Inter-War Modernist Poster! Jonathan Black; Chapter 8: Underground Posters in Wartime! Bex Lewis and David Bownes; Chapter 9: The Roller Coaster Ride: London Transport Posters since 1945! Brian Webb; Chapter 10: Art for All? The Reception of Underground Posters! Claire Dobbin; Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index. ...
