Postcards: Ephemeral Histories of Modernity

Products of modernity, postcards continue to provoke comment today as in the nineteenth century. With their unique status as interdisciplinary image-objects that cross lines of geography, economy, and gender, postcards epitomize the complex history of visual culture. These often sweet, nostalgic, inexpensive mementos of commercial culture have also been carriers, even instigators, of colonialist exoticism and political propaganda. They straddle...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271035285
• ISBN13: 9780271035284
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.5" x 9.5"