Larry Freeman
Autor(a) de Louis Prang; color lithographer; giant of a man
About the Author
Obras por Larry Freeman
Evolution of the Storage Brain: A history of transformative events, with a glimpse into the future of data storage. (2010) 5 exemplares
Grand old American bottles; descriptive listings of glass bottle types from colonial times to the present 4 exemplares
The Country Store 2 exemplares
Historical Prints of American Cities 2 exemplares
Iridescent Glass 2 exemplares
Merry Old Mobiles 1 exemplar
Medicine Showman 1 exemplar
Victorian Furniture 1 exemplar
The Insider's Guide to Data Deduplication: A compilation of blogs by Larry Freeman aka Dr Dedupe (2010) 1 exemplar
Evolution of the Storage Brain 1 exemplar
Historical Prints of American Cities 1 exemplar
The Hope Paintings 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- male
Membros
Críticas
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 33
- Membros
- 70
- Popularidade
- #248,179
- Avaliação
- 2.5
- Críticas
- 1
- ISBN
- 13
The book reprints hundreds of posters, trade cards, billboards, and other assorted media from the period extending roughly from 1815 to 1915. There are some real beauties in here, from the gorgeous posters of Art Nouveau's finest theatrical designers (Mucha, Beardsley, Penfield, et al.), to the simple, straightforward creations churned out by the nineteenth century's anonymous mass of advertising artists, extolling the virtues of everything from snake oil and meat grinders to transcontinental trips on the Rock Island Line.
Meanwhile, the integumentary text reads as though written by an aphasic five-year-old, with inept analysis, repetitive unenlightened commentary, and enough typographic and editorial errors to fill five volumes its size. Captions are misplaced, often repeated out of context a dozen pages later; whole blocks of text are cut free of their moorings and float about pointlessly, promised passages never appear, and solecisms shoot up like crocuses in spring. The author is simultaneously pompous and ignorant, at his best tiresome and at his worst unreadable. Though the book purports to be informative, I learned next to nothing by reading it.
In short, enjoy the pictures, and ignore the text. The best use one could make of this book is to cut out and frame some of the more wonderful of the images it contains.… (mais)