SPRING IS FOREVER ASSOCIATED WITH LOVE. We look at some ephemera related to love.
‘There is no love sincerer than the love of food’, G. B. Shaw, Man and Superman.
Sticker from Vietmanese soup chain. 2014. Collection of Mandy B.
‘My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary’, Martin Luther.
This love affair is with classical music; promotional brochure for the Melbourne Recital Centre, 2014.
‘The only thing we never get enough of is love, and the only thing we never give enough of is love’, Henry Miller.
Selection of loving couples’ covers from the Romance section of the Yarra Libraries, Richmond branch.French WW1 postcard plucked from the internet.British movie magazine, for sale at Camberwell Books. From 1938, 29.5 x 21.5 cm.
‘What to do on a date’ issue 1337 of The Australian Catholic Truth Society Record, June 1960. 15.5 x 8.5 cm. Collection of Mandy B.Selection of covers showing men on romance paperback novels from the Yarra Libraries, Richmond Branch.
