Modernist Magazines and the Social Ideal

by Tim Satterthwaite

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150138774X
• ISBN13: 9781501387746
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"