Plastered
The Poster Art of Australian Popular Music
Introductory essay by Roger Butler
'Traffic inches forward with each cycle of the lights and eventually you're stuck beneath the underpass . . . This is commuting in suburban Australia--any year, any place--and the underpass walls are plastered with posters. They tell you who's on tonight, who's touring next month and who you just missed at last night's performance. The walls are plastered deep with acres of paper.'
Opinion
'The book is well designed and produced and the accompanying text is entertaining and informative.' The Age 22/07/2006
'By Walding and Vukovic's own admission Plastered is not exhaustive. Instead it's a lovingly curated collection. As Rod Stewart remarked back in 1971 "every picture tells a story". This book has 512 incredibly important ones.' Sun Herald 25/06/2006
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'Traffic inches forward with each cycle of the lights and eventually you're stuck beneath the underpass . . . This is commuting in suburban Australia--any year, any place--and the underpass walls are plastered with posters. They tell you who's on tonight, who's touring next month and who you just missed at last night's performance. The walls are plastered deep with acres of paper.'
Posters are the backdrop to our daily lives and travels. Ephemeral by nature, they are glanced at and often forgotten, plastered over in our memory as they are on the walls. As art, though, posters have a unique immediacy. They reflect the trends of the time and reveal subtle shifts in style and design. They act as barometers of cultural relevance and can offer real-time social commentary and political satire.
Plastered leads us on a chronological journey through popular music poster art--the jazz, rock and roll, pop and punk scenes in Australia. More than five hundred posters from the past five decades are reproduced, most from the collection of avid archivist Nick Vukovic, and featuring the work of renowned poster artists such as Ian McCausland and Reg Mombassa. Roger Butler from the National Gallery of Australia tells us where poster art sits in the world of fine art and Murray Walding evokes the stories of the artists, promoters and performers that surround these posters.
With thousands of posters created every year by hundreds of designers, artists and bands, Plastered offers a passing glimpse into the world of popular music poster art. At its most powerful, a single poster can transport you back in time, challenge the way you think or simply work as a beautiful piece of art.
About the Author
Murray Walding is a writer and pop archivist, whose features have been published in the Sunday Herald Sun, The Age and the Geelong Advertiser, as well as major surfing and beach culture periodicals. His passion, aside from popular culture, is surfing and his definitive study of surfing in Australia, Blue Heaven: The Story of Australian Surfing, was published in 2003.
Nick Vukovic is an avid collector and archivist. His collection started with postcards and his guide on the subject, Collecting Australian Postcards, was published in 1983. He soon found a niche in collecting music posters and now has one of the largest collections of music posters and ephemera in Australia. He is the official poster valuer for the government donation under tax incentive scheme.
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