Leonetto Cappiello is known as the Father of the Modern Poster. Combining Ch???ret's joyful exuberance, Toulouse-Lautrec's technique of simplified lines and flat colors, and his own background as a caricaturist, he had an original approach to using posters as eye-catching advertising tools. Cappiello's engaging posters shock, surprise, and move today's viewers as much as they did his contemporaries. This is the largest, most authoritative collection of Cappiello's work ever presented. Many of the 534 full-color poster ...
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Leonetto Cappiello is known as the Father of the Modern Poster. Combining Ch???ret's joyful exuberance, Toulouse-Lautrec's technique of simplified lines and flat colors, and his own background as a caricaturist, he had an original approach to using posters as eye-catching advertising tools. Cappiello's engaging posters shock, surprise, and move today's viewers as much as they did his contemporaries. This is the largest, most authoritative collection of Cappiello's work ever presented. Many of the 534 full-color poster illustrations have never been seen before. Detailed appraisals and annotations, as well as biographical information and insights into Cappiello's graphic methods, accompany each poster. Also included are fifty additional color pictures that demonstrate the many other outlets of Cappiello's talents--book and magazine illustrations, paintings, maquettes, and postcards. Particularly notable are his superb early caricatures. Today, more homes are decorated with Cappiello's posters than any other single poster artist in the world. Cappiello will show you why his posters remain so celebrated.
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534 poster illustrations in full color, 50 color illustrations of other work. Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book Bright, crisp pictorial dust jacket. Tight binding, solid black boards with sharp corners, bright gilt lettering to front board and to spine strip, clean, unmarked pages throughout.
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4to. 25 x 33cm..10.2 x 13.4 in. Cloth in dust-jacket. 336pp....Leonetto Cappiello is the Father of the Modern Poster. And this is the largest, most authoritative collection of Cappiello's work ever presented: 534 poster illustrations in full-color, many never before seen. Detailed appraisals and annotations accompany each poster, as well as biographical information and an insight into Cappiello's graphic method. An additional 50 color illustrations that show the many other facets of Cappiello's talents-from book and magazine illustrations, to paintings, maquettes, postcards and, most of all, his superb early caricatures. Today, more homes are decorated with Cappiello's posters than those of any other single poster artist in the world.
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F. Hard covers. Black cloth over boards. Like new in publisher's shrink wrap. 336 pp. Color plates throughout. * There might be an additional charge due to the large size of the book.
