Pub West Book Design Award 2020 GOLD
Unusual artworks: 500 valuable linen postcards illustrate the development of the American West.
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New West
Few regions have undergone a more rapid and radical development than the American West in the mid-twentieth century. The modern infrastructure, technical innovations, spectacular architecture and new leisure activities have been recorded on postcards with lively pictures in vivid colours. This volume shows 500 selected linen postcards from the America of the 1930s to 1950s with an incomparable wealth of detail.
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The American West with its breathtaking landscapes developed within just 200 years into a modern region with cities, parks, mobility, infrastructure and communication. This fundamental change, which took place in four phases – steam, steel, oil and information – was recorded in the middle of the twentieth century on linen postcards which were popular for their brilliant colours and attractive surface structure. Today the cards have become an independent and popular art form combining photography and painting with mass printing. The volume NEW WEST presents 500 of these valuable postcards from the Wagener-Erganian Collection, accompanied by knowledgeable texts about the development of the country and the subjects illustrated.
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Stunning in its visual display of information, intuitive in its navigation, and generous in every single way, the design of New West rewards the reader page after page. The printing is absolutely incredible, using the art of vintage linen postcards to create a textured, color-saturated vision of the American West that is both old and new at once. The harmony between the vision for the design and the technical aspects of the production is a beautiful thing to behold.
Statement of the judges of the PubWest Book Design Awards
"New West" zeigt nicht bloß einen grellen Ausschnitt aus der Geschichte der Postkarte, sondern erzählt viel über das amerikanische Selbstverständnis.
Süddeutsche Zeitung
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This is a wonderful and wonder-filled book, an obvious labor of love. It mines the physical transformation of the West and it plumbs the depths of the West of our imagination with hope and clear eyes.
Ken Burns
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304 pages, 500 illustrations
29,2 x 22,9 cm, hardcover
29,2 x 22,9 cm, hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-7774-3189-5
Keywords
American West, Architecture, Cultural History, Innovation, Landscape, Linen Post Card, Mid-20th Century, Photography, Urban Development, Wagener-Erganian Collection
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