Prestel Publishing | ISBN:3791352040 | File Type: PDF, 176 pages | File size: 36.Mb | Jun. 25th, 2012
Art Group Shows: Toulouse Lautrec and His Contemporaries From crowded dance halls to smoky cabarets this vibrant collection of posters from the Belle Epoque explores the birth development and continued poparity of a graphic genre Thanks to innovations in color lithography the streets of fin de si cle aris were punctuated with brightly hued posters featuring bold typography and playf imagery Many of these posters were torn down almost as soon as they were pasted up finding their way into private homes and eventually museums and collections all over the world Although many artists contributed to the affichomanie or poster craze one of the most famous among them was henri de Toouse Lautrec This gorgeous book offers exquisite reproductions of more than one hundred posters including those by Lautrec and his contemporaries Bonnard icasso Ch ret and Mucha Advertising everything from tony theater productions to the licentious cancan bicycles to biscuits these posters range from cheerfly exuberant to slyly decadent In her essay Mary Weaver Chapin captures the voices of the artists collectors and critics who fueled the poster craze of the 1890s The rest is a visual spectacle a lively discourse on the value and purpose of art and a celebration of a historically and creatively dynamic era
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