Ocean Liner Posters tells the story of travel from a glamorous by-gone era through the poster art used to advertise and promote the great shipping lines. For a century, ocean liners were the only way to travel from one continent to another. Millions of passengers traveled on these routes. Millionaires, occupying luxurious suites with dream decors and emigrants in search of a future, meager savings in hand, huddled in third class along with tourists, soldiers and traders, all shared their journeys on the largest form of transportation ever built. This book charts the evolution of ocean liner posters from the first ship poster reproductions of the latter part of the nineteenth century, when the vessel's image appeared alongside information about the routes taken, through the Art Nouveau era, when the image of the ship began to take a key role in terms of visual importance. The Art Deco period allowed masters of poster art such as Adolphe Mouron Cassandre to create enduring works for the likes of Normandie or the Atlantique. The book continues tracing the timeline of these posters, through the postwar period until the demise of transatlantic routes, through to the sixties, which saw the poster being modernised. - La riproduzione a colori e nella maggior parte a piena pagina di oltre 200 manifesti pubblicitari delle grandi compagnie marittime e delle loro lussuose navi. Di interesse non solo per gli appassionati delle grandi navi passeggeri ma anche per i collezionisti di manifesti pubblicitari.