Elizabeth M Guffey

Retro: The Culture of Revival (Reaktion Books - Focus on Contemporary Issues)

Bell-bottoms are in. Bell-bottoms are out. Bell-bottoms are back inagain. Fads constantly cycle and recycle through popular culture, each time in a slightly new incarnation. The term “retro” has become the buzzword for describing such trends, but what does it mean? Elizabeth Guffey explores here the...

Posters: A Global History

From band posters stapled to telephone poles to the advertisements hanging at bus shelters to the inspirational prints that adorn office walls, posters surround us everywherebut do we know how they began? Telling the story of this ephemeral art form, Elizabeth E. Guffey reexamines the poster’s roots...

Drawing an Elusive Line: The Art of Pierre-Paul Prud'Hon by Guffey, Elizabeth E. (2001) Hardcover

Retro: The Culture of Revival (FOCI) by Elizabeth E. Guffey (30-Aug-2006) Paperback

Retro: The Culture of Revival (Reaktion Books - Focus on Contemporary Issues) by Guffey, Elizabeth E. (2006) Paperback

Posters: A Global History by Guffey, Elizabeth E. (2015) Paperback

Drawing an Elusive Line: The Art of Pierre-Paul Prud'Hon

A difficult book to categorize, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon emerges in this book as a savvy negotiator of contemporary artistic expectations. From innovative public printmaking ventures to his creation of an alternate, feminine persona through his collaboration with Constance Mayer, Prud'hon questioned and...

Tobias Putrih: 99-07

New York-based sculptor and conceptualist Tobias Putrih, who was born in Slovenia in 1971, created this exhaustive 180-page monograph--his first--between 1999 and 2007. Conceived of as an archive, both visual and textual, the publication illuminates Putrih's thought processes and methodology. Publis...

Drawing an Elusive Line: The Art of Pierre-Paul Prud'Hon