Remember When. A Nostalgic Trip Through The Consumer Era

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Mitchell Beazley
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1999
Edition: First Edition

Description: 206 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: -- Over 500 color photos of exciting collectables.-- Compiled and written by the acknowledged master of 20th century memorabilia.-- A comprehensive pictorial overview of the 20th century.Robert Opie presents a fascinating picture of life in 20th century England -- from the late Victorian era to the present day -- exploring society as reflected by the packaging, advertising, magazines and newspapers, toys and games and royal and commemorative memorabilia that has accumulated over the century. These items bring English history to life and evoke the tastes, smells, sights and sounds of the past. Industry Reviews Clever Robert Opie started collected packaging and advertising 30 years ago and, in his museum of more than half a million items, he has built up a unique record of the flotsam and jetsam of the last consumerist century. Stuff generally disregarded as of ephemeral value and no cultural importance, we now see with hindsight to have been what shaped the real lives most people lived - and many of the dreams they dreamed. Using toys, magazines, gadgets, souvenirs and other everyday items as well as packaging and advertising, Opie takes us through the 20th century with vivid and engrossing pictorial montages acocmpanied by clear and brief analyses of the main social trends of the era. There are two ways to enjoy this book, and the proportions vary depending on what age you are. The pages that predate your loving memory (suffragette dolls and advertisements for electroic lighting) fascinate with their antique strangeness. Then come the everyday objdects of ones own life - pressure cookers, winkle pickers, Beatles albums, Oz magazine, Biba, Watneys Party Seven, space hoppers, alcho-pops, to name but a few - plus a weird sense that the contents of your own cupboards are merely in transition towards a permanent state as artefacts of social archaeology - even the Teletubbies. (Kirkus UK)

ISBN: 9781840001297