British aviation posters art, design and flight
Introduction : the art of Speedbird / Oliver Green and Scott AnthonyTaking to the air : from pioneers to Imperial / Oliver Green. Air pioneers ; War and peace ; The birth of Imperial ; Linking the Empire ; Aspiring to the name ; Croydon and the wider world ; Flying in print ; A new Imperial era ; En...
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Farnham u.a.
Lund Humphries in assoc. with British Airways
2012
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction : the art of Speedbird / Oliver Green and Scott AnthonyTaking to the air : from pioneers to Imperial / Oliver Green. Air pioneers ; War and peace ; The birth of Imperial ; Linking the Empire ; Aspiring to the name ; Croydon and the wider world ; Flying in print ; A new Imperial era ; Enter the Speedbird ; The art of good design ; The end of empire -- Conflict and a changing world / Oliver Green -- Queen and Comet : art and aviation in the new Elizabethan age / Scott Anthony. The rebirth of British civil aviation ; Abram Games and the festival of Britain ; Flying across the Commonwealth ; The art of flight : serving passengers and staff ; The coming of the Comet ; The rise of British European Airways ; Mary de Saulles and BEA's Red Square ; Acclaim and crisis : BEA and the Euro boom ; The sixties begin to swing ; The new frontiers of design. "From Futurism and Modernism to Art Deco and Surrealism, aviation was from its earliest days inextricably linked with revolutionary new ways of seeing the world. Focusing on the golden age of British civil aviation, British Aviation Posters shows how art and design were applied with great creativity and style to develop and promote aviation in the UK and beyond. The story begins with the air shows and exhibitions of the early pioneers, through the start of regular passenger flights in the 1920s and the creation of Imperial Airways as the UK national carrier in 1924. By the 1930s passenger routes across the world were being developed and promoted with increasingly sophisticated visual publicity to persuade the British public to be more 'air minded' in a turbulent period of political and social upheaval. The New Elizabethan Age took UK aviation in new directions in the 1950s with BOAC and BEA ushering in the development of jet airliners and a growing consumer market that needed to be serviced by new forms of marketing and promotion. Drawing on British Airways' premier poster collection and featuring the work of such distinguished designers as Theyre Lee-Elliott, Ben Nicholson, Edward McKnight Kauffer, F.H.K. Henrion, Gabby Schreiber, Robin Day, Mary de Saulles, Abram Games, Hugh Casson and Frank Wootton, British Aviation Posters offers a definitive account of this seminal period in modern UK design history and shows how posters, publicity and graphic design were used to express the speed, progress and sheer excitement of flight"--Book jacket |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | 200 S zahlr. Ill 26 cm |
| ISBN: | 1848220847 1-84822-084-7 9781848220843 978-1-84822-084-3 |