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Modernist Magazines and the Social Ideal
Tim Satterthwaite
出版
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
, 2020-09-03
主題
Photography / Photojournalism
Antiques & Collectibles / Magazines & Newspapers
Social Science / Media Studies
Photography / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Journalism
Art / History / Contemporary (1945-)
ISBN
1501341618
9781501341618
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Cjj1DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The new photo-illustrated magazines of the 1920s traded in images of an ideal modernity, promising motorised leisure, scientific progress, and social and sexual emancipation.
Modernist Magazines and the Social Ideal
is a pioneering history of these periodicals, focusing on two of the leading European titles: the German monthly
UHU
, and the French news weekly
VU
, taken as representative of the broad class of popular titles launched in the 1920s.
The book is the first major study of
UHU
, and the first scholarly work on
VU
in English.
Modernist Magazines
explores, in particular, the striking use of regularity and repetition in photographs of modernity, reading these repetitious images as symbolic of modernist ideals of social order in the aftermath of the First World War. Introducing a novel methodology,
pattern theory
, the book argues for a critical return to the Gestalt tradition in visual studies.
Alongside the
UHU
and
VU
case studies,
Modernist Magazines
offers an essential primer to interwar magazine culture in Europe. Accounts of rival titles are woven into the book's thematic chapters, which trace the evolution of the two magazines' photography and graphic design in the tumultuous years up to 1933.