This authoritative and entertaining exhibition catalog explores the long visual history of a rich and neglected topic: medical quackery, from the itinerant seller of nostrums four centuries ago to the unsolicited spam of today's internet. Presenting a broad variety of material—prints by William Hogarth and Honoré Daumier, posters by Jules Chéret and Maxfield Parrish, and books by H. G. Wells and S. Weir Mitchell—Quack, Quack, Quack offers a delightful look at the remarkable artistry and elaborate language quacks used to peddle their wares: lavish pronouncements, excessive postures, and imaginatively exalted therapeutic promises. The earliest quacks, we see, dressed elaborately, inflated their credentials, and embraced an extravagant vocabulary to market their panaceas, at times claiming their pills and salves would cure all disease. They were succeeded in short order by the makers of proprietary medicines, many of whom adopted quack-style promotional methods while introducing new ones of their own. These vendors advertised widely—often with celebrity testimonials—publishing broadsides, posters, pamphlets, and manifestos to amplify their claims. And though recent strides in medicine mean that most people avoid quacks, and efforts have been made to rid society of patent-medicine makers, the quack survives to the present day, promising to make us all thinner, better-looking, healthier, or more sexually potent. This catalogue—and the 2002 New York City Grolier Club exhibition it originally accompanied—are fascinating reminders of how long such promises have been with us, and in how many unique and scintillating ways they've been made.

Quack, Quack, Quack: The Sellers of Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera, & Books

Arts & Photography

Helfand, William H.

History & Criticism

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Six (+2) Essays on Design and New Media

Helfand, Jessica

Decorative Arts & Design

Cultural Writing. As required by section 108 of the National Security Act of 1947, as amended (50 U.S.C. 404a), this policy report was prepared by the Bush Administration and released to the Congress of the United States on September 19, 2002. It is our [Winterhouse Editions'] belief that the policies outlined in this report will have a far-reaching impact not only on American life, but on the coming course of world events. In a democracy such as ours, participating in public and critical discourse about the course of our society's future is both an inalienable right and a necessary responsibility of every citizen. Without discussion, no society can achieve a consensus on its future direction.

The National Security Strategy of The United States of America

History

Administration, Bush

Americas

A decade-long collaboration between designer and client is a rare occurrence - especially for an evolving institution. Michael Bierut's posters for the Yale School of Architecture under the direction of Robert A.M. Stern is such a partnership: a graphic designer grappling with the dynamic content of a leading school of architecture. This book, published by Winterhouse Editions and Mohawk Fine Papers on the occasion of Bierut winning the AIGA Design Medal in 2006, includes 40 posters designed between 1998 and 2006 for the Yale School of Architecture. 72 pages.

Forty Posters for the Yale School of Architecture

Bierut, Michael

Cultural Writing. Susan Sontag delivered LITERATURE IS FREEDOM as her acceptance speech after receiving the highly prestigious Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. Past recipients of the prize, awarded annually since 1950, include Martin Buber, Hermann Hesse, Octovio Paz, Vaclav Havel, Chinua Achebe and Mario Vargas Llosa. Among other things this brilliant speech touches on the historical and philosophical roots of Sontag's fervent opposition to the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

Literature Is Freedom

SONTAG, SUSAN

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Michael Bierut, William Drenttel, Jessica Helfand

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