The poster : art, advertising, design, and collecting, 1860s/1900s / Ruth E. Iskin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Poster as Art. The Poster's Place in Modernism: Art and Mass Media in the 1890s -- Toulouse-Lautrec, Jane Avril, and the Iconography of the Female Print Connoisseur in Posters -- The Poster and Print: Reproduction and Consecration. The Color Print: Art in the Age of Lithography -- Les Maîtres de l'Affiche: Aura and Reproduction -- The Poster as Design and Advertising -- Art and Advertising in the Street -- Poster Design: The Dialogics of Image and Word -- Collecting and Iconophilia. The Poster at the Origins of the Age of Spectacle: The Rise of the Image and Modern Iconophobia -- The Iconophile's Collecting: Posters as an Ephemeral Archaeology of Modernity.

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"The Poster: Art, Advertising, Design, and Collecting, 1860s-1900s is a cultural history that situates the poster at the crossroads of art, design, advertising, and collecting. Though international in scope, the book focuses especially on France and England. Ruth E. Iskin argues that the avant-garde poster and the original art print played an important role in the development of a modernist language of art in the 1890s, as well as in the adaptation of art to an era of mass media. She moreover contends that this new form of visual communication fundamentally redefined relations between word and image: poster designers embedded words within the graphic, rather than using images to illustrate a text. Posters had to function as effective advertising in the hectic environment of the urban street. Even though initially commissioned as advertisements, they were soon coveted by collectors. Iskin introduces readers to the late nineteenth-century 'iconophile'--a new type of collector/curator/archivist who discovered in poster collecting an ephemeral archaeology of modernity. Bridging the separation between the fields of art, design, advertising, and collecting, Iskin's insightful study proposes that the poster played a constitutive role in the modern culture of spectacle."--Publisher information

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