Author: Jeremy Cooper
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0500480435
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The postcard as you’ve never seen it before. This appealing book collects the best of these mail-able, miniature works of art by the likes of Yoko Ono and Carl Andre. The accessibility and familiarity of a postcard makes it an artistic medium rich with potential for subversion, appropriation, or manipulation for political, satirical, revolutionary, or playful intent. The inexpensiveness of production encourages artists to experiment with their design; the only artistic restriction: that it fits through the mailbox slot. Unlike traditional works of art, the postcard requires nothing more than a stamp for it to be seen on the other side of the world. Made of commonplace material, postcards invite handling, asking to be picked up, turned over, and shown to friends—to be included in our lives. The World Exists to Be Put on a Postcard features postcards, several reproduced at actual size, designed by notable modern and contemporary artists, including Carl Andre, Eleanor Antin, Joseph Beuys, Tacita Dean, Gilbert & George, Richard Hamilton, Susan Hiller, Richard Long, Bruce Nauman, Yoko Ono, Dieter Roth, Gavin Turk, Mark Wallinger, Rachel Whiteread, and Hannah Wilke, many of which are published here for the first time. Organized thematically into chapters, such as “Graphic Postcards,” “Political Postcards,” “Portrait Postcards,” and “Composite Postcards,” this book demonstrates the significance of artists’ postcards in contemporary art.
Author: Jeremy Cooper
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780235134
Category : Postcards
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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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.
Author: Willy Lindwer
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN: 9780805210736
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A delightful way to send Rosh Hashana and everyday greetings: 31 full-color Jewish postcards from the turn of the century, from countries all around the world.
Author: Joy Gendusa
Publisher: Postcard Success Manual
ISBN: 0979963206
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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If you are a business owner, entrepreneur, or marketing manager, and you want to learn how to build a leak-proof marketing machine that hums along with minimal maintenance and optimal results... you really should read this book. Postcard Marketing In An Online World was the trusted guidebook of up-and-coming direct mail marketers when it was released, because the author, Joy Gendusa, was the entrepreneur that brought postcard marketing to the masses by cutting out the middle men (ad agencies), and making it affordable for businesses of all sizes. Now in it s third printing, Postcard Marketing In An Online World has evolved into so much more. With the rise of internet marketing technology, Joy took the time to test how these new technologies worked best with traditional mediums like direct mail. The result is a proven method for integrating direct mail with the latest technological marketing advances, and getting the absolute best results. In this book, you ll learn: How to build an effective direct mail postcard campaign that produces consistent returns How to integrate your postcard campaign with other mediums like email and online marketing The only 4 reasons why a prospect will say NO , and how to overcome them How to buy and manage direct mail marketing lists How to grow your email list Why postcard marketing is so effective (and sometimes misunderstood) How postcards worked for other business owners just like you with full case studies and postcard designs On your search to gain marketing knowledge, Postcard Marketing In An Online World is a book you do not want to miss. Joy is the Founder and CEO of PostcardMania, the leader in postcard marketing innovation, and she has tested and tracked all the strategies in this book with her own business. That s how she knows they work! Buy this book and get the insider knowledge you need to succeed with your marketing!
Author: Jostein Gaarder
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466804270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 599
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A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Author: Lydia Pyne
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 178914485X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
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A global exploration of postcards as artifacts at the intersection of history, science, technology, art, and culture. Postcards are usually associated with banal holiday pleasantries, but they are made possible by sophisticated industries and institutions, from printers to postal services. When they were invented, postcards established what is now taken for granted in modern times: the ability to send and receive messages around the world easily and inexpensively. Fundamentally they are about creating personal connections—links between people, places, and beliefs. Lydia Pyne examines postcards on a global scale, to understand them as artifacts that are at the intersection of history, science, technology, art, and culture. In doing so, she shows how postcards were the first global social network and also, here in the twenty-first century, how postcards are not yet extinct.
Author: Lulu Miller
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501160346
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Nineteenth-century scientist David Starr Jordan built one of the most important fish specimen collections ever seen, until the 1906 San Francisco earthquake shattered his life's work.
Author: Daniel D. Arreola
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816539952
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
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Just a trolley ride from El Paso, Ciudad Juárez was a popular destination in the early 1900s. Enticing and exciting, tourists descended on this and other Mexican border towns to browse curio shops, dine and dance, attend bullfights, and perhaps escape Prohibition America. In Postcards from the Chihuahua Border Daniel D. Arreola captures the exhilaration of places in time, taking us back to Mexico’s northern border towns of Cuidad Juárez, Ojinaga, and Palomas in the early twentieth century. Drawing on more than three decades of archival work, Arreola uses postcards and maps to unveil the history of these towns along west Texas’s and New Mexico’s southern borders. Postcards offer a special kind of visual evidence. Arreola’s collection of imagery and commentary about them shows us singular places, enriching our understandings of history and the history of change in Chihuahua. No one postcard tells the entire story. But image after image offers a collected view and insight into changing perceptions. Arreola’s geography of place looks both inward and outward. We see what tourists see, while at the same time gaining insight about what postcard photographers and postcard publishers wanted to be seen and perceived about these border communities. Postcards from the Chihuahua Border is a colorful and dynamic visual history. It invites the reader to time travel, to revisit another era—the first half of the last century—when these border towns were framed and made popular through picture postcards.
Author: Douglas Bruton
Publisher: Fairlight Books
ISBN: 1912054833
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Once there was a street in Paris and it was called the Street of Tailors. This was years back, in the blue mists of memory. Now it’s the 1950s and Henri is the last tailor on the street. With meticulous precision he takes the measurements of men and notes them down in his leather-bound ledger. He draws on the cloth with a blue chalk, cuts the pieces and sews them together. When the suit is done, Henri adds a finishing touch: a blue Tekhelet thread hidden in the trousers somewhere, for luck. One day, the renowned French artist Yves Klein walks into the shop, and orders a suit. Set in Paris, this atmospheric tale delicately intertwines three connected narratives and timelines, interspersed with observations of the colour blue. It is a meditation on truth and lies, memory and time and thought. It is a leap of the imagination, a leap into the void.
Author: Isaac Asimov
Publisher: Owl Books
ISBN: 9780805001204
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Illustrations created in France to celebrate the turn of the century, show scenes depicting the future of air travel, helicopters, undersea colonies, agriculture and the radio
