The Newspaper Clipping: A Modern Paper Object (Rethinking Art's Histories) - Hardcover

Book 11 of 54: Rethinking Art's Histories

Heesen, Anke

 
9780719087028: The Newspaper Clipping: A Modern Paper Object (Rethinking Art's Histories)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0719087023 ISBN 13: 9780719087028
Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Examines knowledge production and its visual and material background, combining the perspectives of media history with art history and the history of science

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About the Author

Anke te Heesen is Professor of History of Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

From the Back Cover

Looking at the newspaper clipping from 1870 to 1930 in art and science, this study examines knowledge production and its visual and material background, combining the perspectives of media history with art history and the history of science.

It traces pre- and early-modern practices of citation through to the development of modern newspapers, as well as the beginnings of the academic study of the modern press, and opens up the forgotten but once everyday commercial practices of the cutting. Te Heesen offers a counterpoint to existing works on the iconographic meaning of materials through the use of different case studies that reveal various practices of the clipping: a collection of cuttings about Albert Einstein; the collages of the German artist Kurt Schwitters; and the development of a modern archive of clippings. The final chapter is a fascinating summation of various aspects of sociological, philosophical, artistic and literary modernity reconsidered through the lens of the historical constellation she assembles around the object of her study. The book puts emphasis upon the materiality of paper and analyses the practices connected with paper, placing them, along with their instruments and tools, within a theoretical framework. This history also sheds light on the handling of information, information overload and the generation of knowledge, drawing parallels with the Internet.

Through the prism of the newspaper clipping and a remarkable historical reconstruction of its conditions of production and consumption, this accessible study makes a set of powerful arguments about art, literature and labour.

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Publisher
Manchester University Press
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0719087023
ISBN 13 
9780719087028
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
296