Word: posterings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other artisans found their reward in discovering, and helping to build, an artistic League of Nations in their new land. Casablanca, the best-loved film of the 1940s, could have served as a travel poster for this international spirit. The director, Michael Curtiz, was from Budapest; the art director, Carl Jules Weyl, from Germany; the composer, Max Steiner, from Vienna. And of the top 20 names on the cast list, only three belonged to native Americans (Humphrey Bogart, Dooley Wilson and Joy Page); the rest represented the tattered flags of Hungary, Austria, Germany, France, Britain, Canada, Italy, the Soviet Union...
...entries came in from Maine and Montana, Bangladesh and Britain, Italy and Iran, South Africa and Saudi Arabia and Yugoslavia. There were big planes folded from 3-ft. sheets of heavy poster paper and little ones from bits of waxy British toilet tissue. One anxious aeronautics engineer flew in from Kansas to hand-deliver his delicate creations, while another tucked his into a cereal box insulated by stale flakes of Corn Total. A third, with touching trust in the U.S. Postal Service, simply scrawled the contest address across the wings of his plane and plastered a stamp onto its nose...
...such pictures, Kertesz recognized photography's affinity for the haphazard and the fragmentary, but he never lost his classicizing impulse. Through the good government of composition, the most frivolous bits of life -- scraps of poster advertising, a hodgepodge of footprints in the snow -- were redeemed by him and made coherent. With his camera, he once said, "I give a reason to everything around...
...World War I demonstrates the underlying theme of hostility against women in the crusade against venereal disease. Brandt points out that from the start women were either viewed as weak helpless victims or the very source of temptation and disease. Negative propaganda against women entered almost every pamphlet' and poster condemning the disease. Perhaps the most blatant is a World War II poster portraying venereal disease as a sexy woman arm in arm with Nazi soldiers thus declaring her the worst...
...Vegyar that he did not think to ask permission to poster. "The national chapter told us to poster at Harvard, so we figured they had worked everything out with the administration he said...