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portada Pasta Posters
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2026
Language
English
Pages
112
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
29.97x21.59 cm
ISBN13
9783791394633

Pasta Posters

Linus Rapp (Author) · Prestel Publishing · Hardcover

Pasta Posters - Linus Rapp

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Synopsis "Pasta Posters"

This exuberant and historically grounded book traces more than a century of pasta, poster design, and the art of selling the good life.

For more than 130 years, pasta has been marketed not just as food, but as a feeling—of comfort, pleasure, abundance, and belonging. Featuring a wide-ranging selection of posters, the book follows the visual history of pasta advertising and shows how graphic design helped turn an everyday staple into a cultural touchstone.
Spanning the late 19th century to the present and ranging from Italy to France, Switzerland, Germany, Greece, Sweden, and beyond, this exploration of pasta marketing brings together imagery shaped by Belle Époque exuberance, New Objectivity, Socialist Realism, Swiss graphic design, postwar modernism, and contemporary illustration.
Wheat fields, hens and eggs, theatrical figures, playful caricatures, bold typography, and surreal humor recur as visual motifs, showing how artists and designers used iconography, color, and wit to capture attention in the street and on the wall. Situating pasta posters within broader histories of industrialization, advertising, and consumer culture, the book examines how competition among manufacturers, advances in printing, and the rise of corporate identity shaped the look of pasta advertising, while also highlighting how nostalgia, Italian romanticism, and humor continue to define its appeal.
With approximately 100 poster reproductions, the volume offers both visual pleasure and cultural insight, celebrating pasta as food, medium, and enduring symbol of the good life.

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