TY - BOOK ID - 94153683 TI - Collecting prints, posters and ephemera : perspectives in a global world AU - Iskin, Ruth E. AU - Salsbury, Britany PY - 2020 SN - 9781501338496 9781501338519 9781501338502 150133851X 1501338501 PB - New York, N.Y. Bloomsbury Visual Arts DB - UniCat KW - Graphic arts KW - ephemera [general object genre] KW - prints [visual works] KW - collecting KW - collectors KW - anno 1800-1999 KW - maatschappij KW - Art and society KW - Posters KW - Printed ephemera KW - Prints KW - History KW - Collectors and collecting UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:94153683 AB - Why did collectors seek out posters and collect ephemera during the late-nineteenth and the twentieth centuries? How have such materials been integrated into institutional collections today? What inspired collectors to build significant holdings of works from cultures other than their own? And what are the issues facing curators and collectors of digital ephemera today? These are among the questions tackled in this volume-the first to examine the practices of collecting prints, posters, and ephemera during the modern and contemporary periods. A wide range of case studies feature collections of printed materials from the United States, Latin America, France, Germany, Great Britain, China, Japan, Russia, Iran, and Cuba. Fourteen essays and one roundtable discussion, all specially commissioned from art historians, curators, and collectors for this volume, explore key issues such as the roles of class, politics, and gender, and address historical contexts, social roles, value, and national and transnational aspects of collecting practices. The global scope highlights cross-cultural connections and contributes to a new understanding of the place of prints, posters and ephemera within an increasingly international art world. ER -