Postcards

David Prochaska is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Making Algeria French: Colonialism in Bône, 1870–1920 (1990, 2004).Jordana Mendelson is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University. Among her previous books is Documenting Spain: Artists, Exhibition Culture, and the Modern Nation, 1929–1939 (Penn State, 2005).

• ContentsList of IllustrationsIntroductionJordana Mendelson and David Prochaska1.Cartes Postales: Representing Paris 1900Naomi Schor2.Postcards and the Invention of Old Amsterdam Around 1900Nancy Stieber3.Correspondence Here: Real Photo Postcards and the Snapshot AestheticRachel Snow4.Postcards to the Front: John Heartfield, George Grosz, and the Birth of Avant-Garde PhotomontageAndres Mario Zervigon5.Ambivalent Utopia: Franz Marc and Else Lasker-Schüler’s Primitivist PostcardsKimberly A. Smith6.Colonial Collecting: French Women and Algerian Cartes PostalesRebecca J. DeRoo7.Presenting People: The Politics of Picture Postcards of Palestine/IsraelAnnelies Moors8.Exhibiting the MuseumDavid Prochaska9.Outward and Visible Signs: Postcards and the Art-Historical CanonEllen Handy10.Les plus belles cartes postalesPaul ÉluardWith an introduction by Elizabeth B. Heuer11.Main Street Looking North from Courthouse SquareWalker EvansWith an introduction by Elizabeth B. Heuer12.Love Your Panzer Corps: Rediscovering the Wartime Poem PostcardCary Nelson13.Postcard to MoscowJohn O’Brian14.Views of the Ordinary and Other Scenic DisappointmentsTimothy Van LaarList of ContributorsIndex

“This fascinating collection of essays, well introduced and framed by the editors, marks the arrival of the study of postcards as an important component of the growing field of visual studies. Although the discipline of learning about societies from looking at their postcards has a history that goes back to distinguished earlier practitioners such as the Surrealist poet Paul Éluard and the great American photographer of everyday life, Walker Evans, this book will serve as both a benchmark and an incitement to further study of this valuable archive of cultural traces.”—Herman Lebovics, SUNY Trustees Distinguished Professor, Stony Brook University