A poster (of lat. placere - please) is a large printed on paper sheet, which is attached to a wall or other suitable surfaces. Posters are used frequently as carriers for groups, which seek to communicate their request.

Posters with pure text have a long history: they announced Shakespeares of plays. Centuries long informed it the citizens about government-official resolutions.

The large revolution of the poster organization began with the color lithography, which made an inexpensive poster pressure possible in different colors. This technology was developed in France and spread into the 1890ern in completely Europe.

Jules is considered as a founder of the modern picture poster.

1884 take place in France the first Plakataustellung. Numerous well-known artists worked at this time as poster designer, everything in front Henri de Toulouse Lautrec.

Many posters have a high artistic value and desired collecting objects became. In addition fair posters from all world count.

During the First and second World War propaganda posters played a fatal role with the creation of the enemy picture.

Later artistic posters released substantial scandals. Into the 1960er the Pop kind and the protest movement of the west made use extensive by the poster.

Also the film industry discovered rapidly the Potenzial by the poster employment with the advertisement. Thus collecting film posters became a common hobby.

Literature

• Deiters, Franz Josef: Pictures without frameworks - to the Rhetorik of the poster. In: Knape, Joachim (Hrsg.): Medienrhetorik. Attempto publishing house, 2005, P. 81-112. ISBN 3-89308-370-7
• Kamps, Johannes: Poster. Max Niemeyer publishing house, 1999. ISBN 3-484-37105-6
• Den, Bernhard: Diary of the road, Vienna: Austrian federal publishing house, 1981. ISBN 3-215-04576-1

Related links

• The poster PLATFORM FOR ART CULTURE AND SOCIETY
• The poster - art and propaganda in the Spanish civil war
• Art! Commerce! Visions! - German posters 1888-1933
• Poster collection of the Viennese city and federal state library
• The internationally poster Collection:
• Rene Wanner's poster PAGE
• Swiss poster Collection
• WondaWall, the digital poster wall.
• LIBRARY OF Congress poster collection

See also

• Loesje, Megalographie
• German poster museum

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