[audiobook] Hidden History of Pittsburgh by Len Barcousky in Arts-Photography

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Posters are ubiquitous. They hang on office walls; bedroom doors and bus shelters. But what relevance do they have today in our age of image saturation; of prolific social media and electronic devices?In Posters: A Global History Elizabeth Guffey tells the story of this ephemeral art form; from its birth in the nineteenth century to its place in contemporary culture. She argues that even among todayrsquo;s burgeoning digital media; few forms of graphic design can rival posters for their tangibility and sheer spatial presence. From London to Ramallah; Los Angeles to Lagos; posters provide new opportunities to communicate across public spaces that are themselves increasingly transformed by digital media.This book re-examines the roots of the poster; charting its rise from the revolutionary lithographs that papered nineteenth-century London and Paris to twentieth-century works of propaganda; advertising; pop culture and protest. It considers the lives of posters: where and why posters were made; and why and how they endured. It examines posters from todayrsquo;s world; including posters of Palestinian martyrs and West African examples describing voodoo activities; and offers a rich variety of both familiar and lesser-known examples from the Soviet Union; China; Eastern and Western Europe; the U.S. and elsewhere.Beautifully illustrated; Posters provides a fresh history of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century poster as well as revealing insights into the designs and creative practices of our twenty-first-century world.