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Besides using words as images, artists often use them with images--poster art is a prime example of such lingual-visual communication because its declared purpose is to communicate...
More than 50 pedestrians in Harvard Square began their Christmas shopping early on Saturday--by buying a living color poster picturing Beatle John Lennon and His Japanese Soulmate Yoko Ono in the nude...
...Like we love to play music," said Barry Pierce, a New York underground moviemaker who set up the mobile poster stand, adding that operating the stand helped to provide him and his wife Judy with a paid vacation. "It's sort of a honeymoon actually," he said. The couple, who have been selling the posters throughout the East Coast for a month, will hawk their wares in the Boston area for the next week before leaving for California, Pierce said...
...German animator Heinz Edelmann furiously ransacks the past. From the mannerists, he borrows "shot colors" -red blending into orange, blue fading into green. He employs the whiplash and the curvilinear strokes of art nouveau. He features the upholstered monsters of comic strips, the impudent whimsy of Dada, the vibrating poster art of Peter Max. The eclecticism almost becomes a style of its own, and occasionally it is effective, as in Eleanor Rigby when "all the lonely people" appear as gritty newsreel figures who float by each other in a surrealistic frieze...
...overall design effect is not, as the Beatles have implied in interviews, the brilliance of Edelmann's concoctions, but the pervasive atmophere of warmed-over Milton Glaser. His Signet Shakespeare cover figures, Eye Magazine poster art, and advertising lay-out landscapes abound with stifling frequency, serving as the film's only visual leveller. The film purports to be innovative but is in reality a digest of today's kickiest commercial art on sale in various and provocative forms...