Description:
Beautifully designed, Art and Advertising in Buffalo Bill's Wild West presents a new perspective on the art, innovation, and advertising acumen that created the international frontier experience of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
Brief description:
Michelle Delaney is the author of Buffalo Bill's Wild West: A Photographic History by Gertrude Käsebier and coeditor of The Scurlock Collection and Black Washington: Picturing the Promise.
Review Quotes: "In "Art and Advertising in Buffalo Bill's Wild West", Michelle Delaney showcases these numerous posters in full color, many of which have never before been reproduced, pairing them with new research into previously inaccessible manuscript and photograph collections. Her study also includes Cody's correspondence with his staff, revealing the showman's friendships with notable American and European artists and his show's complex, modern publicity model. Beautifully designed, "Art and Advertising in Buffalo Bill's Wild West" presents a new perspective on the art, innovation, and advertising acumen that created the international frontier experience of Buffalo Bill's Wild West."-- Midwest Book Review, Wisconsin Book Watch