Design and the Modern Magazine

Informationen zum Autor >Kate Forde is a Visual Arts Officer at the Arts Council England, London Klappentext Design and the Modern Magazine provides a thematically arranged set of essays that examine the changing character of the magazine as an important aspect of cultural life from the late nineteenth century until today. In doing so it offers some of the first detailed case-studies of individual titles and analyses how design decisions are made alongside editorial, commercial and technical considerations. The book suggests ways to understand the magazine as a designed object. Among the more significant titles considered are Woman's Home Companion, Design, Woman and Vogue. While largely drawing from British and American sources, the book also covers the impact of modern design ideas from Europe on such publications. The essays present new and original scholarship on the subject and will be of use to students and teachers working on a wide range of art and design history, and literature studies courses. Zusammenfassung Design and the Modern Magazine offers an authoritative and original study of the place of magazines in modern consumer culture through a series of case studies that draw particular attention to the magazine as a designed object. The book offers many new insights into how magazines suggest broader aesthetic and cultural forces in modern society.

Product details

• Assisted by: Kate Forde (Editor), Jeremy Aynsley (Editor)
• Authors: Jeremy Forde Aynsley
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 28.02.2007
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design
• EAN: 9780719075490
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7549-0
• Pages: 224
• Series: V&A/RCA Studies in Design History: Anthologies; Studies in Design (Hardcover); V&A/RCA Studies in Design History: Anthologies; Studies in Design (Hardcover)