TY - JOUR
T1 - Pictures of Persuasion
T2 - Hong Kong’s Colonial Travel Posters
AU - ELLIS, James Walter
PY - 2018/9
Y1 - 2018/9
N2 - Hong Kong Baptist University recently purchased one of the world’s finest collections of vintage Hong Kong travel posters. The collection, which includes approximately one hundred posters dating from 1930-1980, is significant in many ways. These pictures of persuasion “offer a wealth of art, history, design, and popular culture for us to understand”. The posters provide a glimpse into evolving mid-century commercial art and the visual languages of Western modernism. Perhaps more importantly, however, they offer a valuable historical and social perspective on Hong Kong’s self-conception and its image in the West during the city’s late colonial period. The posters touch on many important historical themes, including a defence of colonialism, Hong Kong’s local and overseas identities and the ways people shared a now-lost urban environment. Hong Kong’s colonial travel posters belong to the collective memory of Hongkongers and the city’s rich cultural heritage.
AB - Hong Kong Baptist University recently purchased one of the world’s finest collections of vintage Hong Kong travel posters. The collection, which includes approximately one hundred posters dating from 1930-1980, is significant in many ways. These pictures of persuasion “offer a wealth of art, history, design, and popular culture for us to understand”. The posters provide a glimpse into evolving mid-century commercial art and the visual languages of Western modernism. Perhaps more importantly, however, they offer a valuable historical and social perspective on Hong Kong’s self-conception and its image in the West during the city’s late colonial period. The posters touch on many important historical themes, including a defence of colonialism, Hong Kong’s local and overseas identities and the ways people shared a now-lost urban environment. Hong Kong’s colonial travel posters belong to the collective memory of Hongkongers and the city’s rich cultural heritage.
UR - https://www.eajournals.org/journals/global-journal-of-arts-humanities-and-social-sciences-gjahss/vol-6-issue-9-september-2018/pictures-of-persuasion-hong-kongs-colonial-travel-posters/
UR - https://www.eajournals.org/wp-content/uploads/Pictures-of-Persuasion-Hong-Kong%e2%80%99s-Colonial-Travel-Posters.pdf
M3 - Journal article
SN - 2052-6350
VL - 6
SP - 12
EP - 25
JO - Global Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
JF - Global Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
IS - 9
ER -