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Whitner, Claire Chandler.

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The visual culture of surface: Berlin modernism and the pictorial public.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The visual culture of surface: Berlin modernism and the pictorial public./
Author:	Whitner, Claire Chandler.
Description:	275 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Todd Samuel Presner.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-02A.
Subject:	Art History. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3302603
ISBN:	9780549485629

The visual culture of surface: Berlin modernism and the pictorial public.
Whitner, Claire Chandler.

The visual culture of surface: Berlin modernism and the pictorial public. - 275 p.

Adviser: Todd Samuel Presner.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2008.

In this dissertation, I explore how the introduction of the modern poster to Wilhelmine Berlin led to the birth of an urban visual culture. In under a decade, Berlin transformed from a city without pictures to an urban terrain replete with visual material. In arguing that the accession of images into the cityscape constituted a pictorial turn, I contend that poster art did not merely alter the appearance of the city. Through an analysis of the posters published during the late 1890s through World War I and the critical response to the first modern posters and developments in poster design, I show how the ascent of visual primacy in mass communication fundamentally changed how the public was conceived and addressed and how social identities were constructed and accessed.

ISBN: 9780549485629Subjects--Topical Terms:

635474
Art History.

The visual culture of surface: Berlin modernism and the pictorial public.
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520 $a In examining the impact of the modern poster, I investigate the status of the image in Berlin modernism. To a great extent, the implementation of poster art as an advertising tool is arguably part of a larger trend towards the visual in Wilhelmine Berlin. Poster art serves as an invaluable artifact through which to evaluate the relationship between the image, public and modernization, as the ascent of the visual is paired with the means by which the public was recognized as a subject worthy of address and was able to act independently of the state, specifically through the city's modern economy.
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