The poster: art, advertising, design, and collecting, 1860s-1900s

Contents

The Poster as Art. The Poster's Place in Modernism: Art and Mass Media in the 1890s -- Toulouse-Lautrec, Jane Avril, and the Iconography of the Female Print Connoisseur in Posters -- The Poster and Print: Reproduction and Consecration. The Color Print: Art in the Age of Lithography -- Les Maîtres de l'Affiche: Aura and Reproduction -- The Poster as Design and Advertising. Art and Advertising in the Street -- Poster Design: The Dialogics of Image and Word -- Collecting and Iconophilia. The Poster at the Origins of the Age of Spectacle: The Rise of the Image and Modern Iconophobia -- The Iconophile's Collecting: Posters as an Ephemeral Archaeology of Modernity.