Kitchen Kitsch - Eat & Drink in America
What began as a simple idea—giving away free brouchures with illustrations and recipes to advertise food and food brands—became so popular by the mid-20th century that recipe brochures, replete with colorful images of ornate dishes, were fixtures in every housewife's kitchen across America. Originally containing only illustrations, the booklets featured color photography by the 1950s but became obsolete not long afterward, due to the rise in popularity of fast food and television advertising. This book brings together the best—and most unbelievably kitschy—images from a broad selection of such brochures.
About the Series:
More bang for your buck! "... a fast-food, high-energy fix on the topic at hand." The New York Times Book Review
About the editor:
Cultural anthropologist and graphic design historian Jim Heimann is Executive Editor for TASCHEN America in Los Angeles. He is the author of numerous books on architecture, popular culture, and the history of the West Coast, in particular, Los Angeles and the Hollywood dream factory. For over 30 years he has built an unrivaled private collection of ephemera, which has been featured museum exhibitions around the world and in dozens of his books.
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Kitchen Kitsch - Eat & Drink in America
Heimann, Jim
Flexicover, 14 x 19.5 cm (5.5 x 7.7 in.), 192 pages, $ 9.99 ISBN: 978-3-8228-1496-3
Multilingual Edition: English, French, German Availability: Not in Stock |
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