Health for Sale: Posters from the William H. Helfand Collection

by Innis Howe Shoemaker, John Ittmann, William H. Helfand

Since the late 1960s, William H. Helfand has donated more than 1,000 posters, prints, and ephemera to the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Ars Medica Collection, the world's only collection of medical prints housed in an art museum. This fascinating volume presents some 50 of the nearly 200 posters in the renowned Helfand Collection, and includes the work of prominent artists such as Jules Ch?ret and Leonetto Cappiello. Ch?ret's large, colorful lithographs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030017117X
• ISBN13: 9780300171174
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.2" x 10.9"