Artists' postcards : a compendium / Jeremy Cooper.

Main entry:

Cooper, Jeremy, 1946-

Title & Author:

Artists' postcards : a compendium / Jeremy Cooper.

Publication:

Description:

344 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Introduction: the art of postcards -- Pre-1945 -- 1945 to 1980 -- Contemporary -- Categories of artists' postcards -- Artist-designed postcards -- Manipulated postcards -- Composite postcard pieces -- Postcards in collage -- Boxes, sets and books of postcards -- Postcards in mail art -- Postcard presses, designers and photographers -- Political/polemical postcards -- Promotional postcards -- Graphic postcards -- Postcards as pictures.

Summary:

This work provides a detailed description of artists' creation and use of postcards, from 1900 to the present day. The book features 400 actual-size images of postcards by many well-known artists, including Rachel Whiteread, Ellsworth Kelly, and David Hockney.

ISBN:

9781861898524 (hc.)
1861898525 (hc.)
9781780235134
1780235135

Subject:

Postcards.
Postcards History 21st century.
Postcards History 20th century.
Art and Design.
Künstlerpostkarte

Form/genre:

Postcard.
Compendiums.
Postcards.
Cartes postales.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291563
Call No.: BIB 235296
Status: Available

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