Sachgebiete

Beschreibung:

112 S.; qu.-20,5 cm; kart.

Bemerkung:

Gutes Ex.; Einband berieben. - Englisch. - BILLBOARD ART. From fine art boards to three-dimensional extensions, from glittering neon to the enormous handpainted boards that line the drive-through gallery called the Sunset Strip, billboards are an everyday part of the urban landscape. This is the first in-depth look at these huge art images that seem to loom over us as an enormous mirror, reflecting the values of our society. BILLBOARD ART traces the history of the phenomenon the French call gigantisme from its beginnings in outsized posters through the major events of the twentieth century. Billboards reflect the trends in advertising art and have, in turn, influenced fine artists. In these 250 examples from all over the world, billboards give us a good picture of what we think "the good life" is. // Sally Henderson holds a masters degree in fine art and is an art consultant who assists some of the country's largest corporations in collecting art. / Robert Landau is an award-winning photographer whose work on billboards has appeared in GEO, GRAPHIC, HORIZON and NEW WEST magazines. / David Hockney is one of the leading figures in the contemporary art world whose paintings hang in the important modern collections, and whose work is credited with inspiring a renewed interest in figurative painting. (Verlagstext) ISBN 0877011672