Date: 1994
Size: 40.5 x 28.5 inches
Size: 40.5 x 28.5 inches
Artist: Gunter Rambow
Printer: Toppan Printing Co.
About The 100 Best Posters Collection: This poster was originally created by Gunter Rambow in 1979 for the S. Fischer Publishing House. This is an official reissue from 1994 from the collection The 100 best posters from Europe and the United States / 1945-1990.
"In describing the rationale behind this portfolio, Hiromichi Fujita, the President of Toppan Printing Co., explains in the introduction that, "the decision to publish The 100 Best Posters from Europe and the United States 1945-1990 was motivated by our earlier collection of Japanese reproductions published four years ago . . . the first collection was intended as a small contribution to the field of graphic design, which has enjoyed an inseparable relationship with the printing industry for many years now." The selection of posters in this collection were chosen by a panel consisting of Steven Heller, Alain Weill, Milton Glaser and Yusaku Kamekura. All posters chosen (...) were reproduced and were then donated to art museums and related educational institutions in 200 locations around the world. In addition to being forms of expression, these posters, which were created in the diverse social conditions that have prevailed since the end of World War II, truly serve as a testament to the age in which they were produced." (Source: swanngalleries.com)
About the poster: In 1976, Gunter Rambow began his collaboration with the S. Fischer Publishing House, producing eleven posters in three years. Commenting on the process he explains, "I asked myself these questions: How can one show the significance of books and what they give rise to? What is their nature as merchandise? How do they appear? Thus these posters came out of a free association of ideas." The images include a hand holding a book; a hand writing with a pen (that of Thomas Mann, an S. Fischer author); a light bulb; and this one, in which "the window means to suggest the internal radiance of the book." In all cases, the black-and-white photomontage is powerful and exact—a hymn to the book and to reading composed by a man who believes in literature's indispensability. (Source: The 100 best posters from Europe and the United States / 1945-1990, p.140)
This poster is in good condition and ready to be framed.