%0 Journal Article
%T Polish Press Poster 1948–1989 – A Study Based on the Collection of the Museum of Independence in Warsaw
%A Kotecki, Andrzej
%J Media Research Issues
%V 2024
%R 10.4467/22996362PZ.24.020.19803
%N Volume 67, Issue 2 (258)
%P 171-189
%K Polish poster 1948–1989, Polish School of Poster, party press, trade press, youth and student press, Book and Press Education Days, historical press
%@ 0555-0025
%D 2024
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/zeszyty-prasoznawcze/article/polski-plakat-prasowy-1948-1989-opracowanie-na-podstawie-zbiorow-muzeum-niepodleglosci-w-warszawie
%X The poster is one of the forms of graphic applied art, the main purpose of which is to promote or popularize, to provide information about various spheres of social life. Every field of human activity has posters relating to it. The situation is no different for the daily press (dailies) as well as other periodical publications such as weeklies, monthlies, etc. Posters or so-called street art were created at the request of press publishing houses or individual editors. The collection of posters in Warsaw’s Museum of Independence, which forms the basis of this study, numbers more than 8,000 items. In this group, works on press include 125 titles. The posters were created over a period of more than 40 years. The oldest dates back to 1948 and the last or latest was created in 1989. Such a significant number and the time span in terms of their creation can be considered representative of the entirety of this issue. Many of those posters were created in the studios of the best Polish graphic designers. Among them there was no shortage of the most eminent ones, counted among the creators and continuators of the so-called “Polish School of Poster”. The prepared study undoubtedly does not exhaust the subject. However, it can serve as a starting point for further research and analysis of this issue. Until now, this thematic group in the field of poster art has most often been placed in the group of socio-political posters. However, the time has probably come for this thematic range to live to see its own monographic studies.