Books

  1. Posters of the Wpa
    Posters of the Wpa
  2. Floral Designs and Motifs for Artists, Needleworkers and Craftspeople (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
    Floral Designs and Motifs for Artists, Needleworkers and Craftspeople (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
  3. Full-Color Angels CD-ROM and Book (Dover Pictorial Archives)
    Full-Color Angels CD-ROM and Book (Dover Pictorial Archives)
  4. Treasury of Turkish Design: 670 Motifs from Iznik Pottery (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
    Treasury of Turkish Design: 670 Motifs from Iznik Pottery (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
  5. Polynesian and Oceanian Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
    Polynesian and Oceanian Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
  6. Treasury of Chinese Design Motifs (Dover Pictorial Archives)
    Treasury of Chinese Design Motifs (Dover Pictorial Archives)
  7. Early American Design Motifs CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
    Early American Design Motifs CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
  8. Holiday and Special Occasions Illustrations CD-ROM and Book (Electronic Clip Art)
    Holiday and Special Occasions Illustrations CD-ROM and Book (Electronic Clip Art)
  9. Designs from Pre-Columbian Mexico (Dover Pictorial Archives)
    Designs from Pre-Columbian Mexico (Dover Pictorial Archives)
  10. Chinese Cut-Paper Designs CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
    Chinese Cut-Paper Designs CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
  11. Maya Designs (Coloring Book)
    Maya Designs (Coloring Book)
  12. Vecellio's Renaissance Costume Book: All 500 Woodcut Illustrations from the Famous Sixteenth-Century Compendium of World Costume (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
    Vecellio's Renaissance Costume Book: All 500 Woodcut Illustrations from the Famous Sixteenth-Century Compendium of World Costume (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
  13. Ready-to-Use Angel Illustrations (Clip Art Series)
    Ready-to-Use Angel Illustrations (Clip Art Series)
  14. Big Book of Dragons, Monsters, and Other Mythical Creatures (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
    Big Book of Dragons, Monsters, and Other Mythical Creatures (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
  15. North American Indian Motifs CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art Series)
    North American Indian Motifs CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art Series)
  16. African Designs CD-ROM and Book (Dover Pictorial Archives)
    African Designs CD-ROM and Book (Dover Pictorial Archives)
  17. Turn-Of-The-Century Viennese Patterns and Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
    Turn-Of-The-Century Viennese Patterns and Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
  18. 800 Classic Ornaments and Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
    800 Classic Ornaments and Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
  19. Victorian Ornaments and Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
    Victorian Ornaments and Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
  20. Ready-To-Use Art Nouveau Small Frames and Borders: Copyright-Free Designs, Printed One Side, Hundreds of Uses (Dover Clip-Art Series)
    Ready-To-Use Art Nouveau Small Frames and Borders: Copyright-Free Designs, Printed One Side, Hundreds of Uses (Dover Clip-Art Series)
  21. Angels CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
    Angels CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
  22. Gesner's Curious and Fantastic Beasts CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
    Gesner's Curious and Fantastic Beasts CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
  23. Celebrating Florida: Works of Art from the Vickers Collection
    Celebrating Florida: Works of Art from the Vickers Collection
  24. Decoupage: The Big Picture Sourcebook (Dover Pictorial Archives)
    Decoupage: The Big Picture Sourcebook (Dover Pictorial Archives)
  25. Decorative Silhouettes CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
    Decorative Silhouettes CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Posters of the Wpa
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Creativity in Hard Tmes
  • Great overview of a subject that deserves more attention
 Posters of the Wpa
Christopher Denoon
Manufacturer: University of Washington Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0295965436

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Creativity in Hard Tmes.......2002-01-20

A wonderful book of Works Progress Administration posters. Only about two thousand of these survive from the millions printed and 280 are shown in color. They are not posters in the billboard size that everyone is familiar with but mostly small twenty-two by fourteen inches, quickly designed and printed by silkscreen.

Because they were easy and cheap to produce any government or civic department could use the medium, from the New York Foreign Trade Zone, the Seattle Children's Theatre to Stop the Spread of Syphilis, the design styles are just as varied from the whimsical to the stark graphic statement.

Author DeNoon has done his research and explains how the WPA poster division worked, other contributors provide more extra detail. The back of the book has a Portfolio of eight artists. The work of the WPA ended in 1943 and fifteen of their war posters are shown. If you want to follow the story have a look at 'Dig for Victory' by William Bird and Harry Rubenstein, this informative book has 150 posters designed for the Home Front.

Social historians and graphic artists will enjoy 'Posters of the WPA' and incidentally I would suggest that anyone interested in book design gets a copy. The book (designed by Henry Vizcara) is an excellent example of how a graphic visual book should look, the grid design, column widths, typography of the headlines, text and captions, use of white space, paper and printing all work together to produce this lovely book.

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5 out of 5 stars Great overview of a subject that deserves more attention.......2000-06-06

This book is great for the WPA expert or for the novice like myself. The body of work represented in the book opens your eyes to a subject matter that seems largely overlooked as serious art. Nevertheless, the volume of work produced during this period and the number of people reached by this work is truly amazing.
Posters of the Wpa
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		Posters of the Wpa
    Christopher; Denoon, Chris Denoon
    Manufacturer: University of Washington Press
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Paperback
    ASIN: B000ORDL9Q

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