Collecting Prints, Posters, and Ephemera: Perspectives in a Global World (Contextualizing Art Markets) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501377892 ISBN 13: 9781501377891

Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts (UK), 2021

Synopsis

Why did collectors seek out posters and collect ephemera during the late-nineteenth and the twentieth centuries? How have such materials been integrated into institutional collections today? What inspired collectors to build significant holdings of works from cultures other than their own? And what are the issues facing curators and collectors of digital ephemera today?

These are among the questions tackled in this volume—the first to examine the practices of collecting prints, posters, and ephemera during the modern and contemporary periods. A wide range of case studies feature collections of printed materials from the United States, Latin America, France, Germany, Great Britain, China, Japan, Russia, Iran, and Cuba. Fourteen essays and one roundtable discussion, all specially commissioned from art historians, curators, and collectors for this volume, explore key issues such as the roles of class, politics, and gender, and address historical contexts, social roles, value, and national and transnational aspects of collecting practices. The global scope highlights cross-cultural connections and contributes to a new understanding of the place of prints, posters and ephemera within an increasingly international art world.

About this title

About the Authors

Ruth E. Iskin is Professor, Department of the Arts, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

Britany Salsbury is Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts (UK)
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501377892
• ISBN 13: 9781501377891
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Ruth E. Iskin, Britany Salsbury