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Postcards : ephemeral histories of modernity

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Postcards : ephemeral histories of modernity / edited by David Prochaska and Jordana Mendelson.
Publication
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2010.
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Additional Authors
  • Prochaska, David.
  • Mendelson, Jordana.
Description
xix, 234 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 x 28 cm.
Summary
"Examines postcards as images that are carriers of text, and textual correspondence that circulate images across boundaries of class, gender, nationality and race. Discusses issues concerning the concrete practices of production, consumption, collection and appropriation"--Provided by publisher.
Series Statement
Refiguring modernism
Uniform Title
Refiguring modernism.
Subject
  • Postcards
  • Visual communication > Social aspects
Genre/Form
Postcards.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Cartes postales: representing Paris 1900 / Naomi Schor -- Postcards and the invention of old Amsterdam around 1900 / Nancy Stieber -- Correspondence here: real photo postcards and the snapshot aesthetic / Rachel Snow -- Postcards to the front: John Heartfield, George Grosz, and the birth of avant-garde photomontage / Andrés Mario Zervigón -- Ambivalent utopia: Franz Marc and Else Lasker-Schüler's primitivist postcards / Kimberly A. Smith -- Colonial collecting: French women and Algerian cartes postales / Rebecca J. DeRoo -- Presenting people: the politics of picture postcards of Palestine/Israel / Annelies Moors -- Exhibiting the museum / David Prochaska -- Outward and visible signs: postcards and the art-historical canon / Ellen Handy -- Les plus belles cartes postales (1933) / Paul Éluard, with an introduction by Elizabeth B. Heuer -- Main street looking north from courthouse square (1948) / Walker Evans, with an introduction by Elizabeth B. Heuer -- Love your Panzer Corps: rediscovering the wartime poem postcard / Cary Nelson -- Postcard to Moscow / John O'Brian -- Views of the ordinary and other scenic disappointments / Timothy Van Laar.
Call Number
JQF 22-513
ISBN
  • 9780271035284
  • 0271035285
LCCN
2009021961
OCLC
367422770
Title
Postcards : ephemeral histories of modernity / edited by David Prochaska and Jordana Mendelson.
Imprint
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2010.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Refiguring modernism
Refiguring modernism.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
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Prochaska, David.
Mendelson, Jordana.
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Online version: Postcards. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2010 (OCoLC)971575054
Research Call Number
JQF 22-513
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