Roger Butler
Poster art in Australia.
Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 1993

100+ pages, 100+ colour illustrations, 30x25cm., Bibliography, Index.
ISBN 0-642-13020-5

Out of print

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The streets as art galleries
    Australian posters of the nineteenth century
    The poster style
    Blamire Young: ‘A wife, a poster virus, and no money’
    The Australian vernacular style
    Fighting for conscription
    The ‘army of commerce’
    The thirties: Transport and tourism
    The post-war years
    Overseas connections
Walls sometimes speak
    ‘Blowing in the mind’
    Power to the people
    ‘Earthworks for the good of the community’
    Redback: wages paid and fees charged accordingly
    Posters and community arts
    The poster that walks
    A sense of history
    Convergence

Notes
Appendix
Exhibitions and reviews
Bibliography


SUBJECTS
Australian posters, travel posters; political posters, Community arts; Redback Graphix, Earthworks posters