Word: posterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This was the gaslight age, la belle epoque, an era doomed to end with the first shot fired at Sarajevo. The flamboyant demotic art of the poster captured this society in the first blush of its romance with technology and the full flush of its well-fed, self-confident romance with itself. Brimful of retrospection, a Paris exhibit covering the 1870-1914 flowering of poster art is making Frenchmen misty-eyed with nostalgia over the good, inexpensive, uncomplicated, sensuous old days...
...poster artists were early admen. Toulouse-Lautrec glorified the bicycle as well as the poules of Montmartre. Lesser artists painted ads for big new department stores with "fixed prices indicated in plain figures" or automatic baby bottles, "the only one with a pump imitating the breast...
...three-day Whitsun weekend, the weather was as warm and bright as the sky in a Visit Britain poster. Streaming out of London by scooter, motor bike and train, the kids swarmed into two seaside resorts, the prearranged settings for their teen-age rites of spring. There, in two days of juvenile violence without parallel in England, they left no stone unhurled to turn holiday into holocaust...
...letters E, A and T in a crisscross, which draws an occasional visitor in search of hot dogs or pizza. It is supposed to flash on and off with hundreds of lights, but every time the fair people plug it in, it blows its own fuse. His poster for the opening of the ballet theater hangs in Lincoln Center. A show of recent work opened at Manhattan's Stable Gallery, and to top it off, somebody who obviously cared stole one of his paintings from another gallery...
...Mommy and Daddy Think I'm Worth More Than the $1,000,000 That Harvard Wants to Give For My Play Area," one poster read...