Compelling Compendium of Advertisements, multilingual edition in English, French, German WAS £30 SAVE £5 NOW £25Click for larger image ...A fascinating exploration of a decidedly vibrant - and sometimes controversial - chapter of advertising history. Vices or virtues: drinking and smoking provided marketers with products to be forged into visual feasts. In this lush compendium of advertisements, we explore how depictions of these commodities ranged from the elegant to the offbeat, revealing how manufacturers prodded their customers throughout the 20th century to imbibe and inhale.
Each era's alcohol and tobacco trends are exuberantly captured page after page, with brand images woven into American popular culture so effectively that almost anyone could identify such icons as the
Marlboro Man or
Spuds MacKenzie, figures so familiar they could appear in ads without the product itself. Other advertisers devised clever and subliminal approaches to selling their wares, as the wildly successful
Absolut campaign confirmed. Even doctors contributed to a perverse version of propaganda, testifying that smoking could calm your nerves and soothe your throat, while hailing liquor as an elixir capable of bringing social success.
Whether you savor these visual delights, or enjoy inhaling and wallowing in forbidden pleasures, you will certainly be thrilled by this exploration of a decidedly vibrant — and sometimes controversial — chapter of advertising history.
Jim Heimann is the Executive Editor for Taschen America. A cultural anthropologist, historian, and an avid collector, he has authored numerous titles on architecture, pop culture, and the history of Los Angeles and Hollywood, including Taschen's Surfing, Los Angeles. Portrait of a City, and the best-selling All American Ads series.
Steven Heller is the co-chair of the School of Visual Arts MFA Designer as Author Program. For 33 years he was an art director for The New York Times, and currently writes the “Visuals” column for The New York Times Book Review. He is the author of 120 books on graphic design, illustration, and satiric art.
Allison Silver is a writer and editor based in New York City. A former contributing editor to Culture & Travel magazine, she was editor of The Los Angeles Times Sunday "Opinion" section, an editor of The New York Times "Week in Review", and a founding editor of The Washington Independent.
Multilingual Edition: English, French, German
Authors: Steven Heller, Allison Silver, Jim Heimann (Editor)
Artists: Various
Publisher: Taschen, 2018
Number of pages: 392
Format: Hard Cover; Full Colour illustrations
Size: 9" x 12" (238mm x 302mm)
ISBN: 9783836566520
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