{"id":12130,"date":"2012-10-06T03:28:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T02:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=12130"},"modified":"2012-10-06T03:28:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T02:28:54","slug":"posters-a-critical-study-1913","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/10\/06\/posters-a-critical-study-1913\/","title":{"rendered":"Posters: A Critical Study, 1913"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/posters01.jpg\" alt=\"posters01\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An appraisal of the state of poster design from almost a century ago by Charles Matlack Price. Lots of the names you&#8217;d expect from Europe and the United States\u2014Steinlen, Mucha, Beardsley, Will Bradley, Maxfield Parrish, etc\u2014plus a number of examples I hadn&#8217;t seen before. Also a surprising scarcity of Italians and Germans. Scroll down for a remarkably advanced dancer with a guitar by Will Bradley from 1895, a design that anticipates the flourishing of Cubism and abstracted graphics a few years later. Price&#8217;s book may be browsed <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/posterscriticals00pric#page\/n9\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> or downloaded <a href=\"https:\/\/ia600305.us.archive.org\/35\/items\/posterscriticals00pric\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/posters02.jpg\" alt=\"posters02\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/posters03.jpg\" alt=\"posters03\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/posters04.jpg\" alt=\"posters04\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/posters05.jpg\" alt=\"posters05\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/posters06.jpg\" alt=\"posters06\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/posters07.jpg\" alt=\"posters07\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/posters08.jpg\" alt=\"posters08\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/posters09.jpg\" alt=\"posters09\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/posters10.jpg\" alt=\"posters10\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/posters11.jpg\" alt=\"posters11\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/posters12.jpg\" alt=\"posters12\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/posters13.jpg\" alt=\"posters13\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/posters14.jpg\" alt=\"posters14\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/posters15.jpg\" alt=\"posters15\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/11\/19\/koloman-moser-posters\/\">Koloman Moser posters<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/09\/30\/will-bradley-posters\/\">Will Bradley posters<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/01\/17\/secession-posters\/\">Secession posters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An appraisal of the state of poster design from almost a century ago by Charles Matlack Price. Lots of the names you&#8217;d expect from Europe and the United States\u2014Steinlen, Mucha, Beardsley, Will Bradley, Maxfield Parrish, etc\u2014plus a number of examples I hadn&#8217;t seen before. Also a surprising scarcity of Italians and Germans. Scroll down for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/10\/06\/posters-a-critical-study-1913\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Posters: A Critical Study, 1913&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,30,42,4],"tags":[905,94,4122,946,2904,632,965],"class_list":["post-12130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","category-books","category-design","tag-alphonse-mucha","tag-aubrey-beardsley","tag-charles-matlack-price","tag-koloman-moser","tag-maxfield-parrish","tag-theophile-steinlen","tag-will-bradley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-39E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}