Designs of the Times
Edited by Tony Nourmand.
Introduction by Christopher
Frayling.
Contribution by Alison
Elangasinghe.
Published by Reel Art
Press.
Published 2024.
Hardcover.
ISBN-10: 1909526932
ISBN-13: 9781909526938
Description:
Steeped in nostalgia,
this beautiful, diverse and definitive collection features posters from over 20
countries with work by over 150 art directors and illustrators.
The most comprehensive
overview of movie posters ever published, 1001 Movie Posters is a
definitive coffee-table volume from world authority on the art form, Tony
Nourmand. Spanning more than a century of global imagery, the book celebrates
the most arresting, aesthetically powerful examples of the genre, including a
number of posters that have never been published before.
There has always been a
raw immediacy to film posters: provoking and enticing, shocking and seducing
audiences across the threshold of the movie theater. The artists tasked with
communicating that have been at the forefront of design: groundbreaking visionaries
such as Saul Bass and Paul Rand; Eastern European artists using poetic, surreal
and often disturbing imagery in highly original and subversive concepts. Other
poster artists have woven contemporaneous movements in art and popular culture
into their designs, creating a time capsule of the obsessions and concerns of a
different era.
Iconic posters for films
such as Metropolis, The Man with the Golden Arm, Breakfast at
Tiffany’s and Goldfinger sit alongside more unexpected and
lesser-known artwork for films such as 2001, Star Wars, Taxi
Driver and The Birds. Nearly all cinematic movements are included,
from early silent masterpieces through German Expressionism, film noir of the
1940s, 1950s science fiction, the psychedelic imagery of the 1960s, the gritty
violence and retribution of the 1970s and 1980s, and then onward into the 21st
century, where the stripped-back graphics nod back to the Bass minimalism of
the 1950s.
An extraordinary visual
compendium, 1001 Movie Posters is the final word on movie posters and a
must for film lovers and anyone interested in the power of advertising and
design.
"Cinematographic
posters are like popular songs… they take you back to certain moments of your
life, preventing you from losing them. They take you back not only to the film,
but to their seasons, the atmosphere, and the taste of an era.” – Federico
Fellini.
A vast selection of
posters spanning the past century offers insight into contemporaneous tastes
and styles, showcasing the medium’s eye-catching artistic innovations:
glamorous paintings for 1922’s Salomé, scratchy, left-field illustration for
1987’s Withnail and I, and that terrifying, looming shark for 1975’s Jaws. – Tara
Joshi, Guardian.
... readers can travel
back in time with a rich collection of iconic posters from memorable films
including 'Metropolis,' 'Breakfast at Tiffany’s,' 'Goldfinger,' 'Star Wars' and
'Taxi Driver' and 'The Birds.' – Lizz Schumer, People Magazine.
Spanning the colourful
Parisian lithographs that marked the first public film screening by the Lumière
brothers in 1896 through to recent blockbusters including 'Barbie' and
'Parasite,' it is the most comprehensive collection of film posters ever
published. – Aimee McLaughlin, Creative Review.
In the exquisite '1001
Movie Posters: Designs of the Times,' Nourmand shares a wealth of his own
favorites. [...] The volume is thick and arguably the most comprehensive review
ever published. – Elena Clavarino, Air Mail.
Page after page elicits
gasps. – Ty Burr, The Wall Street Journal.
A
sweeping 640-page compendium of promotional posters announcing movies around
the world, from 'Do The Right Thing' to 'Parasite,' to 'Snow White' to 'Star
Wars' (the American, Hungarian, and Polish versions) to the first public
screening in 1896. – The New York Times Book Review.
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