{"id":15964,"date":"2023-09-07T21:40:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T01:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/?p=15964"},"modified":"2023-09-07T21:41:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T01:41:11","slug":"when-advertisements-were-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/2023\/09\/07\/when-advertisements-were-art\/","title":{"rendered":"When Advertisements Were Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Between the 1920s and World War II, illustrators and designers slashed bands of color across advertisements to tempt consumers with ever faster modes of travel and cleverer machinery. The era\u2019s frenetic pace of change is vividly represented in posters hung throughout the homes of the collectors William and Elaine Crouse, and they have partly denuded their walls to lend 58 pieces to \u201cArt Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde,\u201d an&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/posterhouse.org\/exhibition\/art-deco-commercializing-the-avant-garde\/\" target=\"_blank\">exhibition<\/a>&nbsp;that opens Sept. 28 at Poster House in New York City.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Source:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Eve. (2023, August 31). <em>When advertisements were art<\/em>. The New York Times. https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/31\/arts\/design\/art-deco-advertisements-exhibit.html<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Analysis:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I was drawn to this article because of the approach to design that it presents. Advertisements as art in the Art Deco style are captivating to me. The contrasting colors and vibrancy are appealing. It makes me wonder how much more visually stunning our world would be if we took this same approach to everything we do. Look no further than American Suburbia to find swaths of &#8220;cookie cutter&#8221; houses that lack any individuality or character. People are dynamic and unique so why shouldn&#8217;t our designs reflect that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Between the 1920s and World War II, illustrators and designers slashed bands of color across advertisements to tempt consumers with ever faster modes of travel and cleverer machinery. The era\u2019s frenetic pace of change is vividly represented in posters hung throughout the homes of the collectors William and Elaine Crouse, and they have partly denuded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":15966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15968,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15964\/revisions\/15968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}