- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: University of Washington Press; illustrated edition edition (Oct 15 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0295978139
- ISBN-13: 978-0295978130
- Product Dimensions: 30 x 22.4 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,852,375 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This arcane work, published concurrently with a show at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles, is a history of Polish-made film posters that advertised American Westerns during the Communist era. The Western genre and its iconography have resonated powerfully for moviegoers living under repressive governments, and since the silent era Polish audiences have flocked to American Westerns. The fact that the genre itself evolved into less heroic and idealized iterations during the Cold War sometimes played into the hands of the East's ideological goals. For Polish artists the Western film poster offered a chance to pursue aesthetic goals otherwise unattainable within the official canonic style. This book offers a huge range in the quality of the poster art--all by artists virtually unknown outside of Poland--with the pinnacle perhaps being the cartoonish typography and figures of the 1960s. This is truly a niche item, of use only to art libraries supporting a graphic arts curriculum.
-Douglas F. Smith, Oakland P.L., CA
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
-Douglas F. Smith, Oakland P.L., CA
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"Well produced, innovative, and encyclopedic, this is certainly the most impressive book I know on the form and function of film advertising." -- Richard Koszarski in Film History (journal), Vol. 12,
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This book is quite a remarkable piece. It is the catalog for an art exhibit of Polish movie posters for American movie Westerns. The style is bold, full of mostly flat color harking to the American 1950-60's Saul Bass style of movie posters. The text which accompanies the posters is rich with storytelling of how the American Western is perceived in other parts of the world. Also, fascinating facts of life for the artists in Poland and why they generally preferred the Indians to the cowboys and why some of their cowboys have Nazi boots and Lugers. There was much censorship in Poland at this time, but noone remembered to censor the movie posters and the artists used this as a window for social commentary.
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This book is quite a remarkable piece. It is the catalog for an art exhibit of Polish movie posters for American movie Westerns. The style is bold, full of mostly flat color harking to the American 1950-60's Saul Bass style of movie posters. The text which accompanies the posters is rich with storytelling of how the American Western is perceived in other parts of the world. Also, fascinating facts of life for the artists in Poland and why they generally preferred the Indians to the cowboys and why some of their cowboys have Nazi boots and Lugers. There was much censorship in Poland at this time, but noone remembered to censor the movie posters and the artists used this as a window for social commentary.
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