POSTERS OF THE WPA
Christopher DeNoon

Christopher DeNoon: POSTERS OF THE WPA. Los Angeles: The Wheatley Press, 1987. First edition. A Fine hardcover book in a Fine Dust jacket: truly a collectors copy. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Includes original promotional ephemera laid in.

8.75 x 11.25 hardcover book with 176 pages and 320 illustrations (280 in color). The first and best anthology of WPA/American poster art from 1935 to 1942.

The first in-depth study of the WPA poster and the artists who designed them, this volume looks at the the artistic, social, and political movements of the era and correlates these to the posters contained herein. A collector's edition of discovery and appreciation for the nearly lost art of the WPA poster.

Contents:

  • the new deal and the visual arts
  • the birth of the poster divisions
  • a new golden age
  • the decline of the Federal Arts Project
  • the fate of the WPA posters
  • federal art project posters
  • federal theatre project posters
  • a remembrance of the WPA by Anthony Velonis
  • u.s. travel bureau posters
  • education and civic activity posters
  • a design perspective by Jim Heimann
  • health and safety posters
  • a remembrance of the federal art project by Richard Floethe
  • federal music project and federal dance project posters
  • federal writers project posters
  • world war II posters
  • portfolio
  • Bibliography
  • Appendix
  • Catalogue of textiles
  • Artists biographies
  • Index of companies, workshops and schools

Essential to any library on posters or WPA art.

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