Title & Author:

Postcards : ephemeral histories of modernity / edited by David Prochaska and Jordana Mendelson.

Publication:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2010.

Description:

xix, 234 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 x 28 cm.

Series:

Refiguring modernism

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9780271035284 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0271035285

Subject:

Postcards.
Visual communication Social aspects.
Communication visuelle Aspect social.
Postkarte
Ansichtspostkarte

Form/genre:

Postcard.
Postcards.
Cartes postales.

Added entries:

Prochaska, David.
Mendelson, Jordana.
Refiguring modernism.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 268722
Call No.: BIB 200595
Status: Available