Category: Art Posters

‘Performance’ artist: Gary Houston’s posters document Northwest music scene »

By David_Chesanow on Dec 17, 2009 in Art Posters, Events, Interview | 3 Comments

 Poster art, like album cover art and T-shirt art, has been part of the iconography of American music since the 1960s – that decade of so many great, misguided and/or lost causes – when music really started to make a statement. You can trace some of the evolutionary branches of rock and roll through its [...]

More on the Polish poster:
Art meets humor in eastern Europe »

By David_Chesanow on Nov 3, 2009 in Art Posters, Interview | 1 Comment

(Part two of two) Part One Back in August, I wrote about an art form that truly excited me: the Polish poster. Why was I – and why do I continue to be – so enthusiastic about this means of expression? For one thing, it’s great original graphic art, often with a wry political or [...]

Polish posters:
Art meets humor in eastern Europe »

By David_Chesanow on Aug 7, 2009 in Art Posters, Interview | 1 Comment

(Part one of two) Part Two You’ve got to wonder: Did dour, humorless Soviet autocrats – or even their lockstep lackeys in Warsaw – really expect Marxism to blossom in captive Poland? One need only visit PolishPoster.com (www.polishposter.com) for a small but wonderful window into the Polish mind – or at least that of Polish [...]