{"id":23543,"date":"2023-09-25T16:30:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T15:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=23543"},"modified":"2025-03-02T11:20:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T11:20:32","slug":"les-maitres-de-laffiche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2023\/09\/25\/les-maitres-de-laffiche\/","title":{"rendered":"Les Ma\u00eetres de l’Affiche"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alphonse Mucha.<\/em><\/p>\n

Les Ma\u00eetres de l’Affiche<\/em> was a multi-volume guide to the state of poster art in the 1890s, published in five volumes from 1896 to 1900. Being a French publication, the contents are mostly by French artists but other nations are represented\u2014Britain, Germany, Italy, the United States\u2014although fewer contributions than you might expect given the quantity of pages to be filled. The chief attraction of these books is the attention they give to each design, all of which are printed in colour on a full page, and the time of publication which coincides with the birth of Art Nouveau. In addition to the great Alphonse Mucha there are designs by Eug\u00e8ne Grasset, Henri Privat-Livemont, Georges de Feure, Will Bradley, Louis Rhead and others. There’s also a lot of cabaret stuff from Montmartre which has never been to my taste (although I like the Steinlen posters) but those designs were the typical ones of the period.<\/p>\n

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Henri Privat-Livemont.<\/em><\/p>\n

The first four volumes in this set may be found at Gallica (Volume 1<\/a>, Volume 2<\/a>, Volume 3<\/a>, Volume 4<\/a>) but not the fifth volume\u2014isn’t a national library supposed to be more thorough than this?\u2014which may be seen at NYPL<\/a>. For those who prefer paper reproductions, there’s a reprint in Dover Publications’ Pictorial Archive series, The Complete \u201cMasters of the Poster: All 256 Colour Plates from \u201cLes Ma\u00eetres de l’Affiche\u201d<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Louis Rhead.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Will Bradley.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Joseph Sattler.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Beggarstaffs.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Giovanni Mataloni.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Carlos Schwabe.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Jules Cheret.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Adolphe Crespin.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Eug\u00e8ne Grasset.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ethel Reed.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Beggarstaffs.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Fred Hyland.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Maxfield Parrish.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Georges de Feure<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Will Bradley.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Georges de Feure<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Henri Meunier.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Giuseppe Boano.<\/em><\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 The Poster: An Illustrated Monthly Chronicle<\/a>
\n\u2022 Poster Art in Vienna<\/a>
\n\u2022 American Art Posters of the 1890s<\/a>
\n\u2022 Posters: A Critical Study, 1913<\/a>
\n\u2022 Koloman Moser posters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alphonse Mucha. Les Ma\u00eetres de l’Affiche was a multi-volume guide to the state of poster art in the 1890s, published in five volumes from 1896 to 1900. Being a French publication, the contents are mostly by French artists but other nations are represented\u2014Britain, Germany, Italy, the United States\u2014although fewer contributions than you might expect given … Continue reading “Les Ma\u00eetres de l’Affiche”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[58,2,42,4,43,46],"tags":[13085,905,3449,13086,1070,13087,2221,13083,13089,13088,2376,13084,78,2904,13082,965],"class_list":["post-23543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-nouveau","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-magazines","category-theatre","tag-adolphe-crespin","tag-alphonse-mucha","tag-carlos-schwabe","tag-ethel-reed","tag-eugene-grasset","tag-fred-hyland","tag-georges-de-feure","tag-giovanni-mataloni","tag-giuseppe-boano","tag-henri-meunier","tag-joseph-sattler","tag-jules-cheret","tag-louis-rhead","tag-maxfield-parrish","tag-the-beggarstaffs","tag-will-bradley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-67J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23543","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=23543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}