Circus Poster
サーカスポスター / 1870s–1930s / Style / Advertising Posters
The show-bill style that threw chromolithography and wood type at maximum claims and overloaded scenes — including the practice of papering entire walls — advertising that turned the city into a theater.
Saturated chromolithography / Exaggerated animals and acrobats / Superlative slogans / Dense composition
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- the Strobridge Lithographing Company / billposting wars / wood-type show typography