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The European Outthrust and Encounter. The First Phase, c. 1400 - c. 1700. Essays in Tribute to David Beers Quinn on His 85th Birthday
1996
\"The European Outthrust and Encounter. The First Phase, c. 1400-c. 1700. Essays in Tribute to David Beers Quinn on his 85th Birthday\" edited by Cecil H. Clough and P. E. H. Hair is reviewed.
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BOOKS OF THE TIMES
1986
Dipping into this cornucopia, Mr. [Hal Morgan] has had no trouble coming up with rewarding material. The emphasis, as he says, is on pictorial symbols rather than words (the book has more than 1,000 illustrations), and not all famous brand names are here. But a high proportion of them is, along with with a generous selection of the obscure, the bizarre, the long-since defunct. There is also a great deal of curious information; Mr. Morgan (whose previous books include ''Big Time: The American Tall Tale Postcard'') has a pleasantly quizzical style and a nice feeling for commercial folkways. He begins by considering the use and abuse of Americana - in the first instance, the great patriotic symbols, which have been regularly turned to account in this field (though use of the flag has been forbidden since 1905). An amateurish Statue of Liberty was adorning bottles of skin purifier as early as 1885; the bald eagle could once be seen soaring aloft with a barrel of embalming fluid in its beak; Uncle Sam has been identified in his time with everything from exterminating chemicals to a $3.50 shoe (''for all humanity''). The visual puns and odd fancies that they embody give many of the better trademarks in ''Symbols of America'' a quality of innocent surrealism. Some of the older ones could go straight into a Max Ernst collage; a particularly fine effort like the White Owl cigar trademark - the owl perched on a floating cigar, a wreath of smoke rising among the clouds -wouldn't have disgraced Magritte. And increasingly, as you turn the pages, you feel Pop Art straining to be born; until the last 20 or 30 years, that is, when abstract geometric patterns become the order of the day. Mr. Morgan tries to be as fair as he can to this last development - but it is hard not to feel that he prefers advertising with a human face, and hard not to agree with him.
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