Fly Now!: The Poster Collection of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum - Hardcover

London, Joanne Gernstein

 
9781426204814: Fly Now!: The Poster Collection of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1426204817 ISBN 13: 9781426204814
Verlag: National Geographic, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum draws more visitors than any other museum in the world--90,000 a day in the summertime--and the exhibit of air travel posters featured in this unique companion volume combines arresting, colorful art, rare archival material, and a unique approach to aeronautical history. The posters--most of them never before published--feature barnstormers, gliders, and flying boats, the earliest passenger flights, the first luxury-liners, mail carriers, jets, and much more. Spanning a century and a half, they combine the popular art and the commerce of their eras, with both explored in the entertaining, informative text by a longstanding National Air and Space Museum curator. From 19th-century circus impresarios offering rides in gaudy hot-air balloons to the sleek 21st-century airliners, the posters provide a fascinating illustrated history of flight as it evolved from an exotic realm inhabited only by visionaries and daredevils into our modern world of speedy jets and frequent flyers--no longer extraordinary, perhaps, but still echoing with the exhilarating thrill and glamorous excitement captured here.

Countless visitors to the museum's traveling poster exhibition and the permanent exhibition "America by Air" will delight in the gorgeous and wonderful graphics collected in this appealing, affordable book--and so will aviation buffs, armchair travelers, and poster connoisseurs everywhere.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr. Joanne Gernstein London has been a curator at National Air and Space Museum (NASM) for 19 years, 16 of those as curator of the 1400-piece poster collection. As a historian at the NASM, she has contributed to such major exhibitions as "Legend, Memory, and the Great War in the Air" (about WWI) and "Where Next, Columbus?" (on the state of exploration on the 500th anniversary of Columbus's landing in 1492).

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Verlag
National Geographic
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1426204817
ISBN 13 
9781426204814
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Anzahl der Seiten
192
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