 Marilyn, Dream Woman
Walk down any shopping street anywhere in the Western world and there will be Marilyn Monroe - on posters and greetings cards, T-shirts, dresses and ads of all kinds. After her death at least as much as during her life, the image of Marilyn Monroe has fueled prurient fantasy. Read More
Rolling Shows, Great Stars
Computer graphics, computer-aided design, lasers and video technology came together in the 1980s to create a new visual world, in which the new possibilities of electronics were enthusiastically celebrated, and the imagination stimulated by the sheer power of the silicon chip. Read More
New York World's Fair
Streamlining spawned visions of the future, nowhere more so than at the Big Fair - the New York World's Fair which opened in April 1939. International expositions had occured regularly since 1851 - the Eiffel Tower had been built for the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1899 - but "the People's Fair" proclaimed itself "the rnightiest exposition ever conceived and built by man." Read More
The Picture Palace
From the early 1910s, going to the movies became an event in itself. As Adolph Zukor explained, middle-class audiences demanded better facilities: "The nickelodeon had to go, theaters replaced shooting galleries, temples replaced theaters, and cathedrals replaced temples". By 1925, the United States had nearly a thousand picture palaces... Read More
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 Coca-Cola: The Real Thing
In the vortex of the 20th century's constant change it has been a source of reassurance to find a new points of stability, a few commodities not subject to the whims of fashion and planned obsolescence. The red and white Coca-Cola logo is instantly recognizable, a guarantee of standardization and an emblem of the American Way of Life, as potent as the Stars and Stripes itself. Read More
The First Stars
Greatest stars of Hollywood's formative years were Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. From 1914 they, with Charlie Chaplin, achieved a celebrity quite unlike anything ever seen before them. More than the scale of their popularity, what made stardom a new phenomenon was that it detached fame... Read More
Charles Lindberg: The Challenge of the Air
Flight was the adventure of the interwar years as developing technology briefly made aviation a competitive sport, in search of new speed and endurance records. None captured the popular imagination of the media so much as Charles Lindbergh's nonstop solo flight from New York to Paris in 1927. Read More
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Mickey Mouse
Historian Warren Susman has suggested that "Mickey Mouse may be more important to an understanding of the 1930s than Franklin Roosevelt." His creator, Walt Disney, was a fantasist on a grand scale. Dominating American film animation from 1930, Disney built an empire on the periphery of Hollywood... Read More
Royal Family and Media
The British royal family is a unique survivor of the past. This survival is probably due to the fact that Britain has escaped recent revolution or invasion by a foreign power. Because the royal family is an anachronism, a piece of the past which has somehow made it into the modern age, it is of course riven by contradictions. Read More
 Rock Festivals
For a few years, the large, outdoor rock festival an idea borrowed from the tradition of folk and jazz festivals begun in the 1950s and from San Francisco's "human be-in" gatherings or "happenings" - became a symbolic expression of the counter-culture. Read More
Vaudeville and Music Hall
Before ragtime and the new dances captured the public imagination the musical stage was preeminent in the provision of commercial entertainment in both Europe and... Read More
Sporting Superstars
In the 1960s there emerged two sportsmen both black men from unpromising backgrounds - who each won vast fortunes and became amongst the best known faces and names in the world.. Read More
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Vogue Cover, Autumn Fuchsia, 1957 Art Print Parkinson, Norman 19.7 in. x 27.6 in. Buy at AllPosters.com Framed Mounted |
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