Overview
- Draws on archives, interviews, and special collections
- Provides a rich cultural history to coffee-table books
- Intersects book history, publishing studies, and cultural studies
Part of the book series: New Directions in Book History (NDBH)
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About this book
The Coffee-Table Book in the Post-War Anglophone World argues that coffee-table books appeared and became popular in the post-war era at the convergence of three important developments: advances in full colour printing technology, social change, and publishing entrepreneurism and innovation. Examining the coffee-table book through a book history lens acknowledges their significant contribution to post-war visual culture and illustrated publishing. Focussing on post-war America, Great Britain, and Australia during the “golden age” era of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, this history of the coffee-table book takes an interdisciplinary approach to put the coffee-table book in context in regards to materiality, format, printing, status, and genre.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Christine Elliott is an independent scholar who has spent time managing and coordinating projects with disadvantaged young people within various public and private sector social justice programs. In 2008, she co-authored a coffee-table book Custom Bicycles: A Passionate Pursuit, which was published to a worldwide market. This led her to undertake a PhD at Monash University, Australia, which was awarded in 2018.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Coffee-Table Book in the Post-War Anglophone World
Authors: Christine Elliott
Series Title: New Directions in Book History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38902-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38901-6Published: 02 October 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38904-7Due: 06 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-38902-3Published: 30 September 2023
Series ISSN: 2634-6117
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6125
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 256
Number of Illustrations: 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Literature and Technology/Media, Printing and Publishing, History of the Book, Twentieth-Century Literature