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Long live The Poster King: E. McKnight Kauffer at The Estorick Collection

Posted by Gaw in Dabbler Review Sep, 26 2011 16 Comments

The Poster King, the marvellous Edward McKnight Kauffer exhibition at The Estorick Collection, provokes some thoughts on the advertising of today. The idea that advertising can be art became entirely uncontroversial, or at least it seemed to me, around about the time of the Guinness Surfer ad. But one wonders whether you could make ... Read More...

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