INTERNATIONALE TENTOONSTELLING / KLANK EN BEELD. 1932.
41 1/2x30 1/2 inches, 105 1/2x77 1/2 cm. Kotting, Amsterdam. Condition B+: replaced losses, repaired tears and scuffing at edges; repaired tears along vertical and horizontal folds and in upper text; minor overpainting in right image; repaired pin holes in corners.
This poster created for "a 1932 international sound and image exhibition in Amsterdam, captures the essence of the subject matter with a powerful, stylized, red art deco bust, which has sound waves and visual projections emanating from its ear and eye. The exhibition covered all the bases - radio, television, sound recordings, music, photography, and even the latest craze, talking pictures, even though the first Dutch-language sound film wouldn't be released until the following year" (Crouse p. 110). This is a very early, if not the first poster to mention television; TVs weren't widely used in European homes until the 1950s. This image was also used on a postage stamp, and there is a smaller version in black, blue and red, on a white background, by a different printer. Crouse p. 110.
