428 pp. - 801 colour and b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2013
Italian text

POSTCARDS A TO Z
Annotated lexicon
Preface by Gàbor Klaniczay

The 497 entries of this lexicon are certainly satisfactory for specialists and, in general, for those who wish to understand their passion as collectors or to turn their simple love for images into critical knowledge.

The character of lexicon, therefore a sort of encyclopaedia, of this volume aims at enlarging the horizon of interests that go beyond postcards themselves, towards those "visual studies" that are assimilating the History of Art inside a wider anthropological perspective.
Words such as "Collage", "Colonial", Documentary", "Woman", "Fascism", "Fragment", "Gruss", "War", "Posters", "Metaphor", "Politics", "Propaganda", "Advertising", "Regionalism", "Stereotype", "Style", "Dematerializing", "Variety" will open wider horizons on postcards as symbols of the so called post-modern condition, anchored to the concreteness of postcards themselves.

The work is completed by a bibliography of almost 800 titles that are an important work instrument.