{"product_id":"modernist-magazines-and-the-social-ideal-paperback","title":"Modernist Magazines and the Social Ideal - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTim Satterthwaite\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe new photo-illustrated magazines of the 1920s traded in images of an ideal modernity, promising motorised leisure, scientific progress, and social and sexual emancipation. \u003ci\u003eModernist Magazines and the Social Ideal\u003c\/i\u003e is a pioneering history of these periodicals, focusing on two of the leading European titles: the German monthly \u003ci\u003eUHU\u003c\/i\u003e, and the French news weekly \u003ci\u003eVU\u003c\/i\u003e, taken as representative of the broad class of popular titles launched in the 1920s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book is the first major study of \u003ci\u003eUHU\u003c\/i\u003e, and the first scholarly work on \u003ci\u003eVU\u003c\/i\u003e in English.\u003ci\u003e Modernist Magazines\u003c\/i\u003e explores, in particular, the striking use of regularity and repetition in photographs of modernity, reading these repetitious images as symbolic of modernist ideals of social order in the aftermath of the First World War. Introducing a novel methodology, \u003ci\u003epattern theory\u003c\/i\u003e, the book argues for a critical return to the Gestalt tradition in visual studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlongside the \u003ci\u003eUHU\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e VU\u003c\/i\u003ecase studies, \u003ci\u003eModernist Magazines\u003c\/i\u003e offers an essential primer to interwar magazine culture in Europe. Accounts of rival titles are woven into the book's thematic chapters, which trace the evolution of the two magazines' photography and graphic design in the tumultuous years up to 1933.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTim Satterthwaite\u003c\/b\u003e is a Lecturer in History of Art and Design, University of Brighton, UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.66 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 24, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52914989629756,"sku":"9781501387746","price":130.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/7265\/1324\/files\/YkVKUmsrWlQ5WHhwUnVROEZFTWlFUT09.webp?v=1774357348","url":"https:\/\/barginbooks.co\/products\/modernist-magazines-and-the-social-ideal-paperback","provider":"Books Fare ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}