Rather than post a new poster here, or rather a new old poster, for Poster Saturday, I finally, instead, got around to updating a couple of the poster pages here. I've been really remiss at doing that, in spite of having posted a lot of posters over the past year.
Here's the updated pages:
The Poster Gallery: Posters of World War One.
The Poster Gallery: Posters from World War Two.
I wasn't going to add a poster at all this week. But, what the heck. One with a familiar brand name, but not war themed this week.
2 comments:
It's fun to see the old posters.
I love the early to mid 20th Century poster art. It was really the golden age of posters. Prior to about 1905 or so they lacked something. After World War Two, except in the Eastern Block nations, they had no point. Even the Eastern Block propaganda posters can be quite artful up until some point in the very early 1960s.
My favorite ones are the American ones of the World War One period. There were some superb illustrators at work at that time. As photography came in, that started to decline, although it did carry through to the end of World War Two for us.
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