In the pre-Stalin Soviet Union of the 1920s and ’30s, there was a dynamic creativity in the arts, including in one of the newest forms of media: film. Film Posters of the Russian Avant-Garde, out now ...
A 1920s poster depicting Montauk in its full destination resort splendor is expected to sell for as much as $18,000 at auction Friday in Manhattan. The print shows Montauk as it might have been -- ...
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A fascinating collection of 1920s 'life-coaching' posters which were designed to encourage good behaviour in the workplace have come to light. They were produced by the now-defunct print company ...
Anton Lavinsky. Poster for 'Battleship Potemkin', directed by Sergei Eisenstein, 1925 Anton Lavinsky. Poster for 'Battleship Potemkin', directed by Sergei Eisenstein, 1925Merrill C. Berman Collection, ...
Let’s Get It Right: Work Incentive Posters of the 1920s explores how employers encouraged their workforce. The display features 16 posters from the early 20th century including a WWI poster and ...
Dmitrii Moor’s 1931 ‘Gather the Harvest’ poster. From the Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Collection. Part of the exhibition “Constructing Revolution: Soviet Propaganda Posters Between the World Wars” at the ...
The thought of Chicago in the 1920s usually conjures up images of gangsters, Prohibition and other Roaring 20s clichés, but there was another movement in the Chicago area that encompassed this decade.
A COLLECTION of original movie posters, including "exceedingly rare" artwork for silent films from the 1920s, are to go on sale. The posters, which include those promoting My Fair Lady and Dr Who And ...
Remember the Roaring Twenties, when the future looked like Metropolis and cities were going to become battalions of marching skyscrapers? In these colorful 1920s ads for the London Underground, trains ...