I have seen a few very large vintage poster prints glued to wood with no glass covering and wondered if that type of art/ framing had a name. They arent plaques, some were very large. It seemed like a trend in the 70′s.
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Whats the name of the 70′s trend of glueing poster prints to large wood pieces?
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010James Wood: Conflict and convention in Chang-Rae Lee’s “The Surrendered.”
Sunday, February 28th, 2010James Wood: Conflict and convention in Chang-Rae Lee’s “The Surrendered.”
Does literature progress, like medicine or engineering? Nabokov seems to have thought so, and pointed out that Tolstoy, unlike Homer, was able to describe childbirth in convincing detail. Yet you could argue the opposite view; after all, no novelist strikes the modern reader as more Homeric than Tolstoy. And Homer . . .
Can one preserve antique prints w/ frames using those space bags? Would the bags harm the print & wood?
Friday, February 12th, 2010You know what I mean by the “space bags” – the storage bags where you suck the air out of them w/ a vacuum cleaner. My home can get humid at times and I don’t want the prints & antique wood frames to get moisture on them. I plan on displaying these antiques in my new home once we move in, but don’t want them exposed to the humidity in my old house – we have no AC in our current residence, unfortunately.