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Lost Artwork of Hollywood: Classic Images from Cinema's Golden Age

By: Basten, Fred E.

Price: $6.99

Publisher: Watson-Guptill: 1996-10-01

Seller ID: H6-126w

ISBN: 0823083454

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Dust jacket has light wear aroun

Hollywood's golden age is revealed from a different angle by this collection of advertising art. It depicts the posters created for promotion within the industry during the 1930s and 1940s, rather than the ones shown in the cinemas. See Rita Hayworth as she was photographed by Gilda (1946), and Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers caught mid-air for Follow the Fleet (1936). Garbo, Gable, Tracy, Hepburn, and dozens more are featured in full-page or double-page four-colour spreads.
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Italian Film Posters

By: Dave Kehr

Price: $20.00

Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York: 2003-10-01

Seller ID: T8-121w

ISBN: 0870706926

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Dust jacket has light wear.

Thanks to a variety of factors--among them a culture uniquely rich in the visual arts, an artisanal pride in fine printing, and an innate predisposition toward the grand and passionate--Italy produced perhaps the finest film posters in the world for much of the 20th century. Though the distinctive tradition of Italian film posters is well known to European collectors and cinephiles--and the work of poster artists such as Anselmo Ballester, Alfredo Capitani, and Luigi Martinati is displayed in museums and commands high prices at auctions--this national genre remains largely unknown to the Ameri...
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Angura: Posters of the Japanese Avant-Garde

By: Goodman, David

Price: $68.09

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press: 1999-07-12

Seller ID: E2-1021f

ISBN: 1568981783

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

"Angura: Posters of the Japanese Avant-Garde" documents the extraordinary posters created for a group of experimental Japanese theatre groups during the 1960s and 70s. Ranging from the vivid and sexually explicit images of sixties psychedelia to the subtle refinement of traditional Japanese printmaking, the posters represent a tumultuous period both in Japanese graphic arts and in Japanese society as a whole. Silkscreened with up to twenty different colors and printed in limited editions, the posters were ostensibly meant as advertisements for the theatre productions of a thriving countercultu...
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