Talk:Poster artist

message: Doesn't Affichiste refer to the practitioner of this technique rather than its products? --RichardVeryard (talk) 10:24, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You are absolutely right...I shouldn't do this stuff that late...thanks for the heads up! Legotech (talk) 15:44, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I fixed it. That said, I think this could safely be merged with Decollage  J L G 4 1 0 4  15:47, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Art or Artist? 

message: An affichiste is a person that creates posters. Please do not merge with decollage, which is a technique that can be used among others to create a piece of art, such as, but not limited to, a poster.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Babaliu (talk • contribs) 22:43, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Babaliu has replaced the previous article with a bad translation of the French article on Affichiste. However, there is no evidence that the English use of the word matches the original French word, and some evidence that it doesn't. --RichardVeryard (talk) 19:48, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed Babaliu's changes and reverted to the previous version which is consistent with the encyclopedia published by the Oxford University Press. --RichardVeryard (talk) 20:22, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Posters or Torn Posters?

message: Dear RichardVeryard,
thanks for willing to make this accurate.
Please allow me to emphazise what the reference (the encyclopedia published by the Oxford University Press) you are using says:
affichiste. Name (literally ‘poster designer’) 
>>> It is written, very clearly with plain words, right here: "poster designer".
taken by the French artists and photographers Raymond Hains (1926– ) and Jacques de la Villeglé (1926– ), who met in 1949
and during the early 1950s devised a technique of making collages from fragments of torn-down posters. 
They called these works, which they first exhibited in 1957, affiches lacérées (torn posters). 
>>> So it says here, that these two poster designers ("affichistes") explored a technique of recycling older posters to create what they called "torn posters".
>>> It DOES NOT say that an "affichiste" creates exclusively "torn posters".'''
Villeglé manipulated the posters to create particular images and effects, but Hains left them more or less as he found them in an attempt to demonstrate the aesthetic bankruptcy of the advertising world. 
Other artists adopted a similar technique in the 1950s, notably the Italian Mimmo Rotella and the German Wolf Vostell.
>>> Also here it shows that the common tread is to create posters, not to use a specific technique to create posters. One of theses artists works on the material, while the other doesn't.
Please accept the French word AFFICHISTE for what it means literally, "POSTER DESIGNER", for it would be sad to limit this definition to only one of the many poster design creative techniques, the collage being one of them.
Best Regards,
Babaliu  —Preceding undated comment added 22:37, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Babaliu, thanks for the clarification. I want to make two points in reply. Firstly, when an English encyclopedia uses the word "literally", I understood this to mean that although this is the original meaning of a word in another language, the sense has shifted. (Just as the word "smoking" literally refers to the activity of putting lighted cigarettes in one's mouth, but in French the word is commonly used to refer to a certain kind of jacket worn when performing this activity.) So I am unwilling to conclude from the word "literally" in this reference that the word "affichiste" is used by English-speaking art experts to mean "poster designer". Secondly, you are partly basing your argument on unverified statements - in other words, statements for which we don't have a published source. (See Wikipedia:Verifiability) It would greatly improve this article, as well as helping us to resolve this editing problem, if you are able to provide additional sources of factual reference. --RichardVeryard (talk) 01:53, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

text: As Brianyoumans says, the use of the word "literally" is a clue that the real meaning in use may be otherwise, as seems to be the case here: the Oxford University Press book, which is the only published source we have for this word in English, indicates that although the French word literally means poster designer, the word has come to mean something rather different in English. Babaliu persists in deleting the material that comes from this published English source, and replacing it with a French definition, but without any published source that verifies Babaliu's version. I agree with Brianyoumans that Babaliu's version of this page has no notability beyond being a dictionary definition of a French word. However, this would not be true of the previous version of the page, based on the OUP definition, and it was this version of the page which I had proposed merging with Décollage. Babaliu's objection to this merger is based on his unverified definition of the word Affichiste. --RichardVeryard (talk) 22:54, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: A cursory Google search is sufficient to reveal that Oxford is, in fact, smoking crack. I see no such sense of the word in use, even in French sources. The modern meaning appears to be "Poster designer". Instances: L'Affichiste is a shop in Quebec that sells vintage Art Deco posters; this artist in Hollywood calls herself an "affichiste", but the description of her technique does not mention torn posters (although some of it does sound like collage); this video is in French, but many of the pieces pictured do not look particularly collage-like, and the artist is termed an "affichiste". It appears that even in modern French, an "affichiste" is simply someone who makes posters.  It may be that historically, at some point in France, there was a small group that called themselves "affichistes" and practiced the torn posters/collage method - but I think the meaning has, at least in most circles, been lost. Brianyoumans (talk) 00:39, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I thought the debate wasn't about how the word was used in France (or French-speaking Canada) but in the English-speaking art world. But I agree that if the Oxford definition can be discredited, then the English word appears to collapse into a synonym of "poster designer", in which case this article should be merged with a redirect into Poster. --RichardVeryard (talk) 16:30, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Poster Designer

message: Legotech removed the proposed deletion notice on the following grounds "Created as part of the WikiProject Missing articles and has had several editors". In this case, however, I believe the multiplicity of editors indicates a fundamental disagreement conflict about exactly what an Affichiste is and the validity of the references. Unless these issues can be sorted out, I think the article may not survive. --RichardVeryard (talk) 02:44, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I note that the article has taken yet another turn around the track. I am not yet convinced by Brianyoumans argument above, attempting to discredit our only published source, because his argument seems to be largely based on French-language sources, and fails to acknowledge the likelihood that the English usage has diverged from the French usage. However, it is a pity that we can't find any other independent sources. --RichardVeryard (talk) 15:38, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed the first line (dictionary definition of the French word), reworded the rest slightly, and !voted "keep" at the current AfD on the basis that as a dicdef of the French word for "poster designer" the article is no good, but that a Google Scholar search turns up enough references to the artistic school/movement to suggest that a valid article is possible. JohnCD (talk) 17:42, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  proposed deletion