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Design in Airline Travel Posters 1920-1970 : A Semiology and Sociocultural History - David Scott

Design in Airline Travel Posters 1920-1970

A Semiology and Sociocultural History

By: David Scott

Hardcover | 18 January 2021

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This book studies design in airline travel posters of the 1920-1970: period. It is both a semiology and a sociocultural cultural history that explores the way advertising posters combine information and fantasy to create seductive images/texts. The book is lavishly illustrated in colour, the images constituting part of the overall argument.

The field of poster studies is vast, but it is surprising how little work has been done till date on the fundamental structures - semiotic and semantic - that underpin the visual messages posters produce. Most studies of posters focus either on their history; on specific themes - politics, travel, sport, cinema; or on their status as collectable items. Though such approaches are valid, they hardly account for the specificity of the poster's appeal or for the complex semiotic and cultural issues poster art raises. This book sets out to tackle these latter issues since they are fundamental both to the deeper significance and to the wider appeal of the poster as a cultural form.

In doing so it focuses on the field of airline travel posters which developed precisely in the period of the twentieth century (1920-1970) that coincided with the onset of mass travel.

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"The book offers a true semiological analysis of the lithographic poster, explaining its importance and specificity in relation to the photographic poster. According to Scott, the travel poster combines factual elements and fantasy but is also inseparable from an aesthetic dimension which must combine clarity (of the message) while being pleasing to the eye. The book also offers a sociocultural perspective that allows following the evolution of tourism and air travel." -Jean-Xavier Ridon, Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

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