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Autore |
Elliott Christine |
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Titolo |
The Coffee-Table Book in the Post-War Anglophone World / / by Christine Elliott |
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Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2024.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (261 pages) |
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Collana |
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New Directions in Book History, , 2634-6125 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Economics and literature |
Printing |
Publishers and publishing |
Books - History |
Literature, Modern - 20th century |
Literature Business |
Printing and Publishing |
History of the Book |
Twentieth-Century Literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Coffee-table Books: Seriously? -- Chapter 3 What’s in a Name? -- Chapter 4 A New Book-buying Market -- Chapter 5 More Than Meets the Eye -- Chapter 6 David Brower: An American Environmental Publisher -- Chapter 7 Paul Hamlyn: Britain’s Publishing Mould Breaker -- Chapter 8 Lloyd O’Neil: Australia in Colour -- Chapter 9 Conclusion. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The Coffee-Table Book in the Post-War Anglophone World argues that coffee-table books appeared and became popular in the post-war era at the convergence of three important developments: advances in full colour printing technology, social change, and publishing entrepreneurism and innovation. Examining the coffee-table book through a book history lens acknowledges their significant contribution to post-war visual culture and illustrated publishing. Focussing on post-war America, Great Britain, and Australia during the “golden age” |
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era of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, this history of the coffee-table book takes an interdisciplinary approach to put the coffee-table book in context in regards to materiality, format, printing, status, and genre. |
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