The 20th-Century Poster. Design of the Avant-Garde

An illustrated reference book featuring the essays: Broadside to Billboard by Mildren Friedman; Posters at the Turn of the Century by Robert Brown; Function and Abstraction in Poster Design by Dawn Ades; The Russian Film Poster by Alma Law; Thoughts on the Poster by Armin Hofmann; Collecting Graphic Art by Merill C Berman and Alma Law. Contains images, in colour and black and white, of posters by artists such as A M Cassandre, Naum Gabo, Alexei Gan, John Heartfield, Vasily Kandinsky, Gustav Klimt, Gustav Klutsis, El Lissitzky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, William Morris, Picasso, Jackson Pollack, Liubov Popova, Alexandr Rodchenko and the Stenberg brothers. Published by Abbeville Press, New York. Very good condition, minor markings on cover, minor creasing on corners of cover.