ELLIOTT, CHRISTINE MARY Decorative and Democratising: How the Coffee-table Book was Popularised in the Post-war Era Coffee-table books emerged in the post-war era. Part of their popularity was their role as an aesthetically pleasing object in a changing social landscape. The emergence of coffee-table books was fuelled by advances in full-colour offset printing technology, social change and the entrepreneurial efforts of key individuals in America, Britain and Australia. As an accessible visual medium, they played a central role in creating a new book-buying market and the democratisation of book ownership. Coffee-table books became an important tool for photographers and publishers, many of whom used the large-format pages to exhibit images of landscapes, national identities and art. Book publishing;book history;cultural studies;popular culture;post-war social change;colour printing;coffee-table books;photography;visual culture;sociology;national identity;environmental studies;Australiana;art books;the domestic sphere;Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified 2019-04-02
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