I knew that I wanted to pick up Timothy Schaffert's new novel, Devils in the Sugarshop, when he told me the original, now fittingly semi-secret title (Sex Parties in Omaha). But then I was looking at his site and came across a paragraph so brilliant that it made me sigh... some people are just too cool:
The cover of Devils in the Sugar Shop is based on a design by Maciej Zbikowski for the Polish release of the 1968 Italian film Le Dolci Signore, a bedroom farce starring Ursula Andress and Virna Lisi. Poster design reigned as Poland's most respected and refined art form from 1945 to 1989, ending with the rise of capitalism in the country and a more commercial, less artful, approach to the advertising of cinema, opera, and the circus. The design work of the 1950s and 60s was known as the Polish School of Poster, and demonstrated diverse influences: folk art, surrealism, art deco, and pop art among them. The Polish designers of movie posters favored abstraction over celebrity, metaphor over plot.
Previously: Kim's Guest Windowlicker: Romeo & Juliet Polish Movie Poster (which fellow Windowlicker guest editor Joanna bought!).
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