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Posters

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Notices, usually decorative or pictorial, intended to be posted to advertise, promote, or publicize an activity, cause, product, or service; also, decorative, mass-produced prints intended for hanging. For small printed notices or advertisements intended for distribution by hand, use "handbills."

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

René Bouché fashion illustrations

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0038-01
Summary

A celebrated portraitist and leader in fashion illustration, René Robert Bouché (1905-1963) was a visiting lecturer at Parsons School of Design in 1947. The collection, assembled by Jerry Silverman and Shannon Rodgers, consists of over 100 of Bouché's fashion illustrations, as well as a poster from a 1974 exhibition of his work at Parsons.

Dates: 1949 - 1974; Majority of material found within 1952 - 1954

Robert Galster and Gilbert Ireland papers

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0141-01
Summary Robert Galster (1923-1991) and Gilbert Ireland (1924-2015) were designers and alumni of Parsons School of Design. Galster worked as a freelance illustrator and designer. Ireland designed window displays for Bergdorf Goodman for over forty years. The collection consists primarily of Galster's work and includes examples of his designs for books, album covers, and theater posters. Ireland's work is represented in photographs of the windows he designed. The collection also contains...
Dates: 1940s - circa 1983

Student performance of Hoppla, We're Alive (Fuck, We're Alive)

 Collection
Identifier: NS-05-03-04
Abstract

The collection includes a recording, poster drafts and printed poster promoting a New School student performance of the Ernst Toller play, Hoppla, We're Alive (in the original German, Hoppla, Wir Leben). Students in a Eugene Lang College drama class staged the play in 2019 as part of the events celebrating the university centennial, with the revised title, Fuck, We're Alive.

Dates: 2019

Theatre Associates poster for "Exiles" by James Joyce

 Collection — Box Mixed n_OSx-4 (F), Folder: 4
Identifier: NA-0025-01
Abstract

Poster for the play, "Exiles," by James Joyce, produced by Theatre Associates and performed on May 6, 1933 in the auditorium of The New School at 66 West 12th Street in New York City.

Dates: 1933

Unity and Diversity: Traveling Exhibition from Parsons School of Design posters

 Record Group
Identifier: PC-02-14-01
Abstract

Mounted posters from the exhibition, “Unity and Diversity: a selection of posters from the Communication Design Department at Parsons School of Design," created by junior-year Communication Design students at Parsons. Thirty posters were chosen for the exhibition out of 180 entries submitted to a poster competition held by the Communications Design Department on the theme of “diversity, the underlying theme of the American Republic” in 1994.

Dates: circa 1993-1994