The Stamp of Fantasy: The Visual Inventiveness of Photographic Postcards

by Marta Gili and Urs Stahel

Essential for ephemera aficionados, fans of Surrealism and proto-Surrealism and for anyone prone to spending more time in a museum's shop than in its galleries, The Stamp of Fantasy vindicates the postcard as a medium with a history as rich as the mediums it helped to foster, such as photomontage and mail art. In presenting the most fantastical postcard images from the early twentieth century, this book may be the opposite and complement to Martin...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3865216080
• ISBN13: 9783865216083
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Steidl
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 5.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 11.8" x 11.8"