TY  - BOOK
AU  - Klich,Lynda
AU  - Lauder,Leonard A.
AU  - Weiss,Benjamin
ED  - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
TI  - The Postcard Age: selections from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection 
SN  - 9780500290729
AV  - NC 1875.U6 L38.2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - London
PB  - Thames & Hudson
KW  - Lauder, Leonard A.
KW  - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
KW  - Exposiciones
KW  - Tarjetas postales
KW  - Historia
KW  - Coleccionistas y colecciones
KW  - Estados Unidos
N1  - Publicado en ocasión de la exposición llevada a cabo en el Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, del 24 de octubre del 2012 al 14 de abril del 2013; Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice de ilustraciones
N2  - In the decades around 1900, postcards were Twitter, email, Flickr and Facebook, all wrapped into one. A postcard craze swept the world, and billions of cards were bought, mailed and pasted into albums. Many famous artists turned to the new medium, but one of the great pleasures and enigmas of postcards is how some of the most beautiful and interesting examples were made by artists whose names we barely know. Drawing on the riches of the Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Collection (probably the finest and most comprehensive collection of its type), this gorgeous book traces the historical and cultural themes--enthralling, exciting, and sometimes disturbing--of the modern age. The first general publication on the postcard as an artistic medium since the mid-1970s, The Postcard Age is organized thematically, with chapters devoted to urban life, the changing role of women, sports, celebrity, new technologies, the stylish collectors' cards of Art Nouveau and World War I. The result is at once a vivid picture of the concerns and pastimes of the turn of the century and a sampler from the Lauder's vast archives--solapa
ER  -