This lavishly illustrated volume amasses nearly 500 of the best and most striking posters designed by artists working in the 1930s and early 1940s ...
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Jul 15, 2009
Jeanette
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The largest agency that President Franklin D. Roosevelt created as part of his New Deal program was the Works Progress Administration. The WPA employed millions of Americans in a wide variety of civic projects across the nation. One arm of the WPA was the Federal Art Project which employed artists and writers to create and perform in various entertainments.
The Poster division of the FAP was charged with producing posters to raise awareness and promote programs, basically on many levels it More...
The Poster division of the FAP was charged with producing posters to raise awareness and promote programs, basically on many levels it More...
Nov 20, 2011
Angel
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This is an excellent book that I think more people should be reading and looking over. The book is a collection of posters made by the agencies of the WPA during the New Deal. The neat thing is a lot of the posters have not been seen before. According to the WPA Living Archive (a preservation project and compilers of the book), most of the posters that still exist are being preserved in the Library of Congress. Now, the LOC has about 900 posters out of an estimated millions out there; according
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Aug 09, 2009
Kristen
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Basically just a (large, very pretty) art book. After a basic intro, the posters are left to stand on their own. It was interesting to see warnings about things like drunk driving and smoking from long before either was outlawed.
Apr 22, 2009
Ben
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A beautiful and informative collection of this renowned series of posters. Still influential.
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