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A century of Olympic posters / Margaret Timmers.
- Title
- A century of Olympic posters / Margaret Timmers.
- Author
- Timmers, Margaret
- Publication
- London : V&A, 2008.
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- Additional Authors
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Description
- 144 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 28 cm.
- Summary
- As snapshots through time, Olympic posters provide a fascinating record of our world, a lens through which we can explore links between sports and art, politics and place, commerce and culture. A century of Olympic posters offers an intensely visual representation of the modern Games, and shows the evolution of the Olympic Games poster as well, from the first official poster for Stockholm in 1912 right up to the present. This diverse range of images includes official posters for the Summer and Winter Games set in their historical context, and linked to pervading themes such as politics, commerce, the Olympic symbols, cultural and physical diversity, and urban regeneration.
- Alternative Title
- Olympic posters
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Posters
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 140-141) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Early Images -- Body Beautiful -- Evolving Symbolism -- Post-war Design -- Symbols and Identity -- New Identities -- Regeneration and Promotion -- Commerce -- Diversity -- This Millennium.
- ISBN
- 9781851775385
- 1851775382
- OCLC
- 232997389
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library