Alberto Milano presents a synthetic overview of printed ephemera modified across Europe over four centuries. Drawing attention to geographical, chronological, and social parameters, he concentrates on a few typical processes: the transformation of high-value artistic images into everyday artefacts, mainly fans, between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries; the French conversion of Italian seventeenth-century prints with a political meaning into items with a moral or ethical dimension; the Russian destiny of an English print about a sensational case; the application of romantic and satirical subjects to the decoration of small objects. Milano’s well-informed view of print propagation through a European common market from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries strongly questions nationalistic approaches common to the first decades of the twentieth century.
CITATION STYLE
Milano, A. (2018). Change of Use, Change of Public, Change of Meaning: Printed Images Travelling Through Europe. In New Directions in Book History (pp. 137–156). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53832-7_6
Mendeley helps you to discover research relevant for your work.