{"id":2565,"date":"2014-05-26T22:51:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T02:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/?p=2565"},"modified":"2014-06-06T22:33:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T02:33:46","slug":"barry-mosers-theater-posters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/barry-mosers-theater-posters\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry Moser’s Theater Posters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Barry Moser in 1972, adjusting the second of Williston’s two printing presses. By 1969 the Castalia Press was producing broadsides and other fine printing from its home in the old Easthampton railroad depot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some of this is necessarily in the nature of a personal reminiscence.\u00a0 Barry Moser spoke at Williston Northampton’s Commencement on May 25th.\u00a0 (Listen here!)<\/a>\u00a0 <\/strong>Today he is recognized as an artist of international preeminence; in September 1967, for this writer and about 400 other once-young men, he was a rookie faculty member taking over a visual arts program that was, quite frankly, on life support.\u00a0 Its transformation was swift and spectacular.\u00a0 And those of us fortunate to have been in Barry’s classes were transformed as well.\u00a0 Ever the iconoclast, he challenged every assumption any of us might have had about art, not to mention literature, music, psychology . . . all the while demanding that we\u00a0see,<\/em> not just look.\u00a0 Any student from his 15 years on the faculty will tell you that his were lessons for a lifetime.<\/p>\n

In the late sixties the Williston Theatre was entering one of its golden ages under the direction of Ellis Baker and Richard Gregory.\u00a0 Barry was soon involved as a set designer.\u00a0 He also began to produce handbills for the plays — visual miracles for which the word “poster” is possibly inadequate.\u00a0 Often the central images were executed in the intricate and sometimes unforgiving media of woodcut or etching.\u00a0 Here are a few examples.\u00a0 (All items are by Barry Moser for Williston Academy or The Williston Northampton School; reproduced with the gracious permission of the artist.)<\/p>\n

John Brown’s Body, Spring 1969.\u00a0 “I tried for something that looked like a wanted poster.”\u00a0 (Click all images to enlarge.)\"John<\/a>The Merry Wives of Windsor, Fall 1969.\"Merry<\/a>The Threepenny Opera, Spring 1977\"Threepenny<\/a>Home Again, Spring 1978\"Home<\/a>The Wyfe, Spring 1979.\"The<\/a>Detective Story, Fall 1979\"Detective<\/a>Vivat, Vivat Regina, Spring 1980 \"Vivat<\/a><\/p>\n

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Barry Moser and Chris Teller ’73 discuss the intricacies of the Kelley-B letterpress.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some of this is necessarily in the nature of a personal reminiscence.\u00a0 Barry Moser spoke at Williston Northampton’s Commencement on May 25th.\u00a0 (Listen here!)\u00a0 Today he is recognized as an artist of international preeminence; in September 1967, for this writer and about 400 other once-young men, he was a rookie faculty member taking over a … Continue reading Barry Moser’s Theater Posters<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[164,111,12,43],"tags":[212,333,334],"class_list":["post-2565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-fine-performing-arts","category-williston-academy","category-williston-northampton-school","tag-barry-moser","tag-theater-posters","tag-williston-theatre"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2565"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2596,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions\/2596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}