Looking at the newspaper clipping from 1870 to 1930 in art and science, this study examines knowledge production and its visual and material background, combining the perspectives of media history with art history and the history of science. It traces the biography of a newspaper clipping in different fields, ranging from highly sophisticated ordering systems in the sciences, to bureaucratic archives, to their appearance in the collages of the Dadaists. Te Heesen emphasises the materiality of paper and analyses the practices connected with it, placing them and their instruments and tools within a theoretical framework. This history also sheds light on the handling of information, information overload and the generation of knowledge, drawing parallels with the internet. Te Heesen offers a counterpoint to existing works on the iconographic meaning of materials by opening up an interdisciplinary framework through the use of different case studies. -- .
By:
Anke Heesen
Translated by:
Lori Lantz,
Lori Lantz,
Lori Lantz
Other:
Bethan Hirst
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 748g
ISBN: 9780719087028
ISBN 10: 0719087023
Series: Rethinking Art's Histories
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 02 January 2014
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction Paper objects 1. The materiality of excerpts and quotations: writing on, cutting, and pasting paper 2. The modern object: multiplicity, movement, reproduction Newspapers 3. The newspaper and the emergence of the newspaper clipping 4. Newspapers, scholarship, and clippings Clippings 5. Einstein in paper: physicist Ernst Gehrcke’s clipping collection 6. Flour as paste: The newspaper fragment in the work of Kurt Schwitters 7. Order in paper: The newspaper clipping collection at the Hamburg World Economy Archive 8. The newspaper clipping and modernity Conclusion Bibliography Index -- .
Anke te Heesen is Professor of History of Science at Humboldt-Universitt zu Berlin
