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The Art of the Poster — A Century of Design
London Transport Museum, Covent Garden Piazza, WC2, until 31 March
A handsome book London Transport Posters: A Century of Art and Design (Lund Humphries, £30) accompanies the exhibition. It doesn’t feature everything in the show — not the John Nash, for instance — but it does contain over 250 images and much history. Frank Pick emerges as remarkably idealistic. He wrote that successful posters should not only encourage people to use LT but establish ‘good will and good understanding between passengers and the companies’. He also considered that LT should share in ‘the transformation of our urban civilisation into some fine flower of accomplishment’. High-flown sentiments perhaps, but better to aim for the stars than the gutter. A Spectator reader brought this exhibition to my attention and for that I am most grateful. It’s a real oasis among the alarms and excursions of London today.
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JohnAnt
February 19th, 2009 4:05pm Report this comment..but is it worth a whole article? Surely not.
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