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advertising history
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Shell-Mex
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twentieth-century design
Product details
- ISBN 9781848223783
- Dimensions: 249 x 270mm
- Publication Date: 06 Sep 2021
- Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Exploring Shell's remarkable advertising archive, which includes an extensive poster collection, as well as film, cartoon graphics and guidebooks, this book is the first to present a comprehensive overview of the company's artistic heritage. The key contributions made by some major artists and designers including Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland, Ben Nicholson and Edward McKnight Kauffer are highlighted and beautifully reproduced from original archive material, and broader questions are explored, such as Shell's position within contemporary debates regarding the aesthetics of 'Commercial Art'. By delving into the ways in which Shell's publicity was conceived, commissioned and disseminated in the 20th century, the authors examine the historical and social contexts of Shell’s advertising and assess the work's broader cultural significance in shaping an era defined by travel, prosperity and mass democracy.
Scott
Anthony is a writer and historian. His books include Night Mail (2007), The
Projection of Britain (2011) and The Story of Propaganda (2021). Nicky
Balfour Penney (contributor) is the Shell Heritage Art Collection
Manager. Oliver Green is former Head Curator and now Research Fellow at the London
Transport Museum and a freelance historian and museums consultant. His
publications include London’s Underground: The Story of the Tube (2019) and
British Aviation Posters: Art, Design and Flight (2012). Margaret Timmers was
formerly Senior Curator of Prints in the Word & Image Department of the
V&A. She is the editor of The Power of the Poster (1998) and co-editor
with Gill Saunders of The Poster: A Visual History (2020).
