The New Icons? : : The Art of Television Advertising / / Paul Rutherford.

Commercials enjoy a privileged place in one of the most important institutions of everyday life - television. Such is their prominence that a comparison can be made to the icons gracing the walls of a much older institution, the medieval cathedral. Paul Rutherford admits that the analogy can be carr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©1994
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (270 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Photographs
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Ads as Art
  • 1 The First Clios (1948-58)
  • 2 Studies in American Excellence
  • 3 Art in the Service of Commerce
  • 4 Reading the Bessies
  • 5 The Cannes Lions, Etc. (1984-92)
  • 6 The Captivated Viewer and Other Tales
  • Afterword: Travels in Europe (October 1992)
  • Appendix: How to View Commercials
  • Listing of Commercials
  • Sources
  • Index