Pictures of Persuasion: Hong Kong’s Travel Posters
Visual Arts
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Hong Kong Baptist University recently purchased the world’s finest collection 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. They also offer a valuable perspective on Hong Kong’s image in the West during the city’s late colonial period. Hong Kong’s vintage travel posters belong to the collective memory of Hongkongers and the city’s rich cultural heritage.
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