Looping the Loop: Posters of Flight

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Donald S. Lopez

Bill Allen and Henry Villard have collected the finest examples of historic aviation posters and the National Air and Space Museum is proud to be the first venue for the Looping the Loop exhibition. The accompanying book, with its beautiful reproductions of the posters, is a must for aviation and art buffs, and for historians. It is a treat to the eyes and to the mind as a representation of how aviation was viewed in those pioneer years.
— Donald S. Lopez Acting Director of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution

Walter J. Boyne

As we approach the millennium, we need to be reminded not only of the beauty of aviation but of its achievements. This spectacular book does both, capturing the very best of 20th Century Flight.
— Walter J. Boyne Former Director of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution; Founder of Air and Space Magazine; Author of more than 12 aviation books

Caroline Sheen

Flight is a subject that captivates us all! I found Looping the Loop fascinating. . .an impressive collection of posters showing various developments in aviation. A remarkable book!
— Caroline Sheen Photography and Art Editor, Air and Space/Smithsonian

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Deirdre Donahue

It's a collection of 102 posters used to stimulate interest in hot-air balloons, airplanes, patriotism and exotic locations from the start of the 20th century through World War II. The color, the talent, the visual inventiveness will make one yearn for the commercial artists of the past. A must for poster lovers.
— USA Today

Library Journal

The romantic appeal of watching the pioneer fliers take to the air cannot be overstated. Although the Wright brothers' accomplishment at Kitty Hawk in 1903 has not vanished from the public memory, the significant early contribution of French fliers largely has. If nothing else, this gorgeous book makes clear the inspiring efforts of the early French fliers (who predominate here) as well as those of the artists who celebrated them in charmingly vivid posters for air shows. Of the 102 posters from the Allen Airways Flying Museum, El Cahon, CA, and other collections shown here, 32 are part of a traveling exhibit that opened in the Smithsonian in April and will travel for two years around the country. As art historian Rennert points out in his foreword, the arrival of flight coincided with a French poster craze, or affichomanie. When the French aeronaut Louis Bleriot crossed the English Channel in July 1909, conditions were perfect for a renaissance in commercial art, and artists and fliers went about inspiring each other. Aviation historians Villard and Allen have produced an uncompromisingly elegant salute to early flight and its mustached heroes dropping bouquets from the skies. For art and aviation collections.--Nathan Ward, "Library Journal" Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.\

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ISBN-13: 9780967007625
Publisher: Kales Press
Publication date: 3/1/2000
Edition description: Reissue
Pages: 160
Sales rank: 1,360,527
Product dimensions: 10.47 (w) x 13.37 (h) x 1.08 (d)

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