Winter Carnival
A Century of Dartmouth Posters, Edited by
Jay Satterfield, Published by University Press of New England.
Avidly collected and fetching high prices at auction, the Dartmouth Winter Carnival poster is a treasured and tangible artifact of one of the College’s most cherished traditions. Here, presented for the first time, is Dartmouth College Library’s definitive collection of Winter Carnival posters from 1911 to 2010, celebrating Dartmouth’s seasonal bacchanal, sports fest, and social daze. In addition to their merit as markers of changing taste in graphic arts, the posters offer a fascinating glimpse into a century of intense cultural and institutional development.
“That the Dartmouth Winter Carnival was promoted and commemorated so completely through posters is quite an achievement...The historical continuum they represent is amazing. Even more valuable is the fact that they have been preserved not just as nostalgic souvenirs, but as a body of work, representative of an era in which the poster - a form that is gradually dying in the online, virtual world - was a major means of mass communication.”
- Steven Heller
“A hundred years of community, camaraderie, riotous conviviality, and profound memory-making are represented in this compilation of images...The posters collected in this volume show us Dartmouth College not as it is, but as it appears, or once appeared, in the creative imagination of a century of students. They show us, in bold lines, bright colors, and enchanted settings, not ourselves as we are, but ourselves as we once were. That might well be cause enough for celebration. Winter Carnival springs eternal!"
- Gina Barreca
A Century of Dartmouth Posters is published with the support of the friends of the Dartmouth College Library. $45 cloth.
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