The coffee-table book in the post-war Anglophone world / Christine Elliott.

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2024]

©2024

xi, 256 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

The Coffee-Table Book in the Post-War Anglophone World argues that coffee-table books appeared and became popular in the post-war era at the convergence of three important developments: advances in full colour printing technology, social change, and publishing entrepreneurism and innovation. Examining the coffee-table book through a book history lens acknowledges their significant contribution to post-war visual culture and illustrated publishing. Focussing on post-war America, Great Britain, and Australia during the "golden age" era of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, this history of the coffee-table book takes an interdisciplinary approach to put the coffee-table book in context in regards to materiality, format, printing, status, and genre.

ebook version :

English

March 05, 2024

Includes bibliographical references and index.

History.