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Editorial Reviews
Entertainment Weekly, 8 December 2000
Featuring every imaginable image . . . this collection of postcards includes fascinating transcripts of the personal messages written on each dispatch.
From Booklist
Postcards, ubiquitous throughout the twentieth century, depict everything from bathing beauties to battleships, tourist attractions to smutty cartoons, giant vegetables to skylines, while keeping pace with changing aesthetics, social mores, and technologies. Artist and avid collector Phillips sees postcards as invaluable windows onto the attitudes and tastes of their times by virtue of both their images and written messages, and he describes this remarkable and thoroughly captivating assemblage of primarily British and American postcards as a "composite illustrated diary in which nearly 2000 people have made their entries." Phillips' introductory history of the postcard is both entertaining and enlightening, and readers will spend hours absorbing the wealth of information embedded in this fascinating and piquant tour of a century. Each sharply reproduced example of the sublime or the tacky, the mundane or the striking, preserves an impulse to capture a moment and make a connection, and charts the evolution of fashion, humor, feminism, transportation, architecture, and the face of romance and war. Donna Seaman
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Featuring every imaginable image . . . this collection of postcards includes fascinating transcripts of the personal messages written on each dispatch.
From Booklist
Postcards, ubiquitous throughout the twentieth century, depict everything from bathing beauties to battleships, tourist attractions to smutty cartoons, giant vegetables to skylines, while keeping pace with changing aesthetics, social mores, and technologies. Artist and avid collector Phillips sees postcards as invaluable windows onto the attitudes and tastes of their times by virtue of both their images and written messages, and he describes this remarkable and thoroughly captivating assemblage of primarily British and American postcards as a "composite illustrated diary in which nearly 2000 people have made their entries." Phillips' introductory history of the postcard is both entertaining and enlightening, and readers will spend hours absorbing the wealth of information embedded in this fascinating and piquant tour of a century. Each sharply reproduced example of the sublime or the tacky, the mundane or the striking, preserves an impulse to capture a moment and make a connection, and charts the evolution of fashion, humor, feminism, transportation, architecture, and the face of romance and war. Donna Seaman
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
See all Editorial Reviews
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