No comments about Abingdon's Poster Book: 9 Full Color Christian Posters.

2 comments about Klimt: Taschen Posterbook (Posterbooks).

1. It is good that there is a poster book dedicated to the master painter Gustav Klimt. I gave it three stars because the color quality could be better. However, this item is a real treat for any admirer of his work.



2. It is good that there is a poster book dedicated to the master painter Gustav Klimt. I gave it three stars because the color quality could be better. However, this item is a real treat for any admirer of his work.

No comments about Posters (Grosset Art Instruction Series).

No comments about Poster Prices: Prices Realized and Index to over 16,000 Rare Posters Sold at Auction 1985-2001.

5 comments about The Glamour Girls of Bill Ward.

1. This is a charming and humorous book. It recalls humor from another perhaps less complicated era. Worthwhile.



2. I bought this book back in 2003 when it was freshly in print and it was, h'mmmm, $28.95 list (just checked the dust jacket). The $159 I referred to is what Amazon Marketplace dealers are asking for it as of late April 2007 - and that's the _least_ expensive price. Take it from me, though; this book is well worth the cost (and if you keep it in good condition, you'll find it appreciating further!) The first part of the book is given over to a comprehensive overview of Ward's life and career, with many illustrations (mostly in color). The heart of this volume, though, is the 130-some full-page reproductions, in B&W and sepia, of Ward's best cartoons featuring his sexy and elegant beauties from what I consider to be his finest body of work in the 1950's and 1960's. The theme-oriented chapters have headings such as "Phone Girls Part 1", "The Mating Game", "Working Girls", "Husbands and Wives", and all provide a splendid overview of Ward's unique "conte" drawing style and his fascination with the accouterments of feminine dress such as high heels, seamed stockings, figure-hugging dresses and gowns, picture hats and opera-length gloves. Compare and contrast with Taschen's new _The Wonderful World of Bill Ward_, which I will also be reviewing in the near future. Highly recommended, particularly in the hardback version (if you can afford it!!)



3. This is by far my favorite collection of Ward's pinup art. From the gorgeous cover art and dust jacket to the high quality, glossy pages, this tops the other books available. Those of us lucky enough to have bought this rather limited release possess one of the best collections of pinup art from an undisputed master available.



4. This is a great book for fans of Bill Ward's pin-up art and features numerous full-page illustrations of his distinctive beauties. Most of the pin-ups are black and white Conte crayon drawings done on a beige colored paper. There are a few color pin-ups shown as well. The beginning of the book contains a concise biography of Ward along with samples of his comic-book art. There are several nice romance covers shown here. The book is printed on quality paper and the pin-ups shown at a nice size. This is an A+ effort. The only thing you could have asked for is more art, but at around 100 pin-ups this is a great tribute to Bill Ward.



5. I don't think Bill Ward sits easily with what are generally considered pin-up artists like Elvgren, Petty, Vargas and the few dozen others who created the genre over the last seventy years but his huge output from 1950 to 1975 (which is the basis of this handsome book) means his work has to be considered.
   
   Examples of Ward's comic art, shown in several color covers (Love Diary, Love Confessions, Love Scandals, Heart Throbs, Flaming Love and Torchy) clearly show how good a draughtsman he was but the clean-up of the market in the early fifties meant he had to find another publications to work for. Abe Goodman's Humorama titles solved the problem. These were cheaply-printed digest size magazines full of bad jokes, cheesecake photos and girlie cartoons. The author Alex Chun says Ward produced thirty cartoons a month for Humorama titles and over twenty-fives years probably drew an amazing 9,000 pin-ups.
   
   Ward's Humorama art was probably the only reason anyone bought these tacky publications. Because he had to produce so much work quickly he developed his own unique style of using Conte crayon to draw pin-ups. This had the advantage of showing tonal quality almost like an airbrush and when the originals (up to eighteen by twenty-four inches) were reduced to the digest size pages they looked impressively slick.
   
   There are 117 whole page Ward pin-ups, all from his Humorama period, in this book. The majority are printed in four-color sepia with white highlights (the front of the book has an essay and examples of his early comic and color pin-up work) and the sexually suggestive, exaggerated females with their black stockings, filmy negligees, skin-tight dresses, coiffure hair and impossibly high stilettos leap of the page. If you are interested in this little corner of American male pop culture I doubt there will be a better book of Bill Ward's voluptuous art.
   
   ***FOR AN INSIDE LOOK click 'customer images' under the cover.

2 comments about Posters American Style.

1. An exquisite collection of mostly American posters. Most are from the last century, with a healthy sampling from WWI and WWII, as well as sampling of rock art, commercial posters, and sports posters. A great strenth of the book is the attention it devotes to the representations and self-representations of women and ethnic minorities. Some of the most powerful pieces in the book are the many protest posters from the 1960s and 1970s. The book offers minimal text to analyze the work; instead concentrating on high quality prints from an excellent and wide-ranging assortment of American posters. A valuable and beautiful fragment of history.



2. This is a great book. It showcases posters and other visual messages from sports, government, counterculture and activist groups, and advertising from the late 1800's to the present. Some of the posters are very illuminating of the times in which they were created, and they show how our societal ideas have evolved (for better or worse) since. It is fascinating and enjoyable reading.

No comments about Yesterday's Tomorrows: The Golden Age of the Science Fiction Movie Posters, 1950-1964.

1 comments about Matisse (Posterbooks).

1. This Taschen posterbook contains six (12"x17") quality posters at a very low price. The images in this series were created by Matisse in the years 1908 through 1947. There is an informative comment about each oil painting in English, German, and French. A brief chronology of his life (1869-1954) is also included.

   The reproductions included in this packet are: Harmony in Red (La desserte), 1908; Dance, 1909/10; Decorative Figure on an Ornamental Ground, 1925/26; Pink Nude, 1935; Lady in Blue, 1937; and Red Interior: Still Life on a Blue Table, 1947.

   I wish there would have been one poster of Matisse's cut-outs, but I bought the little postcard book to obtain those images (ISBN 3-8228-9443-5).

   I am able to use three of these posters when teaching art at the elementary level (the children get embarrassed if I show the nudes). However, the quality is very nice -- suitable for framing at home!