European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse . Jane Avril Toulouse Lautrec s posters have Long been Art Buff treasures. Victor Ancona Karl Koehler teamed in sardonic 1942 War poster. Hoi Nui this is the enemy posters there is a fascinating irony at work in the Art world of today. While artists have been busily working to sell amalgams of popular culture under the tags of pop Art and of Art the Public has turned to an updated version of an old Art form the poster. Despite the strenuous efforts of the serious artists to peddle smashed up autos and enlarged copies of comic strips under the Guise of something meaningful the Public has been happily hanging up wild advertisements for psychedelic concerts and settling Down with massive blow ups of w. C. Fields or Betty Grable. Taking note of the Public s enthusiasm new York s museum of modern Art assembled some 300 examples of poster Art dating from the 1880s and including the latest of the late under the catch All title of world and after a six week showing in new York the exhibit is now in route to san Antonio tex., for a two month run at Hemisfar 68 starting april 6. How fares the poster in the Art world of today a museum official put it this Way while in the past it was the Painter whose work influenced graphic design to Day s posters billboards and cartoons form such a Large part of the visual environment that their ele ments both in style and subject Are frequently used by Sam Bauman Page 12 the stars and stripes oeuvres de Protection s i infancy 18 octobre an 19 de Cobre 1888 . T jew to i a saw Oskar Kokoschka designed Vienna broadside in 1907.for Paris of 1896.jules Cheret created Art show Frank Stella celebrated arts festival with Zagorsky a Harlem globetrotters tour of 1963 a Tea ism German bauhaus group show was subject of Joost Schmidt 1923 work. Love is the subject of David Holzman s silk screen poster of 1967. The stars and stripes puce 1 3
