The Poster is a beautifully illustrated, and nicely …

The Poster is a beautifully illustrated, and nicely crafted, cultural history of the late nineteenth-century art poster. It is principally concerned with Paris and with France, and it is on this terrain that it is at its strongest. Iskin’s command of the material, both primary and secondary, on fin-de-siècle Paris is excellent, and the book develops a number of fruitful arguments.