The Postcard Age
Subtitle: selections from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection
By: Lynda Klich and Benjamin Weiss
Contributors: Lauder, Leonard A.; Weiss, Benjamin, 1922-; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780500290729
Subjects: Exhibitions; Art collections; Postcards; History; Collectors and collecting; Art and Design; Art; Private collections; Bildpostkarte; Ansichtspostkarte; Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Bauhaus Dessau Bereich Architektur und Sammlungen; Bauhaus Dessau
Other titles: Selections from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection
Description: In the decades around 1900, postcards were Twitter, email, Flickr and Facebook, all wrapped into one. A postcard craze swept the world, and billions of cards were bought, mailed and pasted into albums. Many famous artists turned to the new medium, but one of the great pleasures and enigmas of postcards is how some of the most beautiful and interesting examples were made by artists whose names we barely know. Drawing on the riches of the Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Collection (probably the finest and most comprehensive collection of its type), this gorgeous book traces the historical and cultural themes--enthralling, exciting, and sometimes disturbing--of the modern age. The first general publication on the postcard as an artistic medium since the mid-1970s, The Postcard Age is organized thematically, with chapters devoted to urban life, the changing role of women, sports, celebrity, new technologies, the stylish collectors' cards of Art Nouveau and World War I. The result is at once a vivid picture of the concerns and pastimes of the turn of the century and a sampler from the Lauder's vast archives.
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Oct. 24, 2012-Apr. 14, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references.