Collecting Prints, Posters, and Ephemera: Perspectives in a Global World

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Why did collectors seek out posters and collect ephemera during the late-nineteenth and the twentieth centuries? How have such materials been integrated into institutional collections today? What inspired collectors to build significant holdings of works from cultures other than their own? And what are the issues facing curators and collectors of digital ephemera today? These are among the questions tackled in this volume—the first to examine the practices of collecting prints, posters, and ephemera during the modern and contemporary periods. A wide range of case studies feature collections of printed materials from the United States, Latin America, France, Germany, Great Britain, China, Japan, Russia, Iran, and Cuba. Fourteen essays and one roundtable discussion, all specially commissioned from art historians, curators, and collectors for this volume, explore key issues such as the roles of class, politics, and gender, and address historical contexts, social roles, value, and national and transnational aspects of collecting practices. The global scope highlights cross-cultural connections and contributes to a new understanding of the place of prints, posters and ephemera within an increasingly international art world. Title Page Copyright Page Contents Figures Introduction, Part I: Collecting Modernand Contemporary Prints Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Introduction, Part II: Collecting Posters and OtherEphemera: From Modernity to the Digital Era Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Plates Series Editor’s Introduction Introduction Part 1: Collecting Prints Introduction, Part I: Collecting Modernand Contemporary Prints Print Collecting before 1800 Modern Print Collecting Institutional Print Collections The Historiography of Print Collecting The Changing Market for Prints Today Notes Selected Bibliography Chapter 1: Henrietta Louisa Koenen’s (1830–81) Amsterdam Collection of Women Printmakers Notes Selected Bibliography Chapter 2: Loys Delteil (1869–1927): Community and Contemporary Print Collecting in Fin-de-Siècle Paris Delteil’s Biography and Professional Roles Delteil’s Scholarship: Le Peintre-graveur illustré The Community around Prints: Public Work and Private Collecting Delteil’s Collection Delteil as a Défenseur of Contemporary Prints Notes Selected Bibliography Chapter 3: Women Collectors of Japanese Prints: The 1909–14 Paris Expositions des estampes japonaises at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs The 1909–14 Expositions des estampes japonaises at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs Japoniste Social Networks Notes Selected Bibliography Chapter 4: Collecting Ukiyo-e Prints in Japan during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Notes Selected Bibliography Chapter 5: Building Hemispheric Unity to Serve Corporate Identity: IBM’s Collection of Prints from the Americas Art, Business, Politics, and the Birth of the IBM Permanent Collection IBM and Graphic Art of the Americas Aftermath and Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Part 2: Collecting Posters and Ephemera Introduction, Part II: Collecting Posters and Other Ephemera: From Modernity to the Digital Era Collecting Posters and Ephemera in the Nineteenth Century Print Ephemera, History, and Memory Museums and Collecting Posters Collecting in the Digital Era Notes Selected Bibliography Chapter 6: From Commune to Commerce: Ernest Maindron’s Collecting Ephemera and Posters, Late 1850s–Early 1900s Ernest Maindron: Collector, Archivist, Curator, and Historian Maindron’s Collection of Commune Posters Maindron’s Classification The Late Nineteenth-Century Poster Market Collecting Posters and Ephemera for Future Historians Notes Selected Bibliography Chapter 7: The Maurice Rickards Collection of Ephemera Notes Selected Bibliography Chapter 8: Hans Sachs: The Most Dedicated Collector of Posters in Germany “The World’s Largest Poster Collection” The Society of the Friends of the Poster and the Journal Das Plakat The Plundering and Dispersal of the Collection Notes Selected Bibliography Chapter 9: To Possess is to Belong: Carlos Monsiváis’s Collection of Ephemera and Popular Culture in Mexico City The Public Monsiváis The Private Collector Collecting Mexican Archetypes The Collection as an Alternative View of the Nation The Collection at The Little Shop Notes Selected Bibliography Chapter 10: The David King Collection of Russian and Soviet Ephemera at Tate: Expanding the Museum Narrative with Ephemera Notes Selected Bibliography Chapter 11: Collecting Chinese Propaganda Posters Introduction—Chinese Propaganda Posters Art and Propaganda Posters Collecting Posters Collecting Chinese Posters Today: Issues and Methods Collecting Posters: Scope of Publication Numbers Collections and Museums in the West Collections and Museums in China Collecting Posters: The Market Notes Selected Bibliography Chapter 12: The Cuba Poster Project: Collecting for People, not Profit The Cuba Poster Project The Commercialization of Political Posters Sampling or Plagiarism? Repositories: Personal, Commercial, and Public Proposed Best Practices Notes Selected Bibliography Archives and collections Chapter 13: Collecting Pre- and Post-Revolution Iranian Movie Posters in the United States and in Iran Film Poster Collecting inside Iran: Private Collections Film Poster Collecting outside of Iran: Poster Collecting Tied to Film Exhibition and Distribution Poster Collecting Tied to Film Scholarship Notes Selected Bibliography 14: The Challenge of Collecting Digital Posters and Graphics from the Web: A Roundtable Discussion Introduction The Participants Roundtable Notes Author Biographies Index