Western Amerykanski: Polish Poster Art of the Western

Book Overview

The figure of Gary Cooper as the proud frontier sheriff striding down the street in the 1952 American Western High Noon is as much a symbol of dignity and courage in contemporary Poland as it is in the United States. In 1989, for Poland's first free election since the Communist takeover, the political party Solidarity dramatically and successfully used that image of Cooper on a campaign poster urging voters to respond to their country's own ?high...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295978139
• ISBN13: 9780295978130
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.2" x 12.1"