Abstract
The essay proposes that advertising posters around 1900 construct a popular-culture iconography of a modern temporality associated with new technologies. In addition, it proposes, posters themselves embody a new temporality as a medium. The essay analyses how posters portray time by focusing on several images, some of which depict an updated allegorical figure of Father Time in order to advertise a racing automobile or precision watch.The essay also addresses the temporality of posters as a medium by investigating their conditions of viewing and the role of their advertising function. The discussion of the media specificity of posters, their cultural context, and a detailed analysis of their imagery, concludes that posters both elicit a certain kind of temporal viewing and portray a conflictual transition between old and new temporalities.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 27-50 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | KronoScope |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Dec 2003 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
- Philosophy
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- History and Philosophy of Science