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Portraying the Aztec Past
During the period of Aztec expansion and empire (ca. 1325–1525), scribes of high social standing used a pictographic writing system to paint hundreds of manuscripts detailing myriad aspects of life, including historical, calendric, and religious information. Following the Spanish conquest, native and mestizo tlacuiloque (artist-scribes) of the sixteenth century continued to use pre-Hispanic pictorial writing systems to record information about native culture. Three of these manuscripts—Codex Boturini, Codex Azcatitlan, and Codex Aubin—document the origin and migration of the Mexica people, one of several indigenous groups often collectively referred to as “Aztec.” In Portraying the...
Encyclopedia of Ephemera
The joy of finding an old box in the attic filled with postcards, invitations, theater programs, laundry lists, and pay stubs is discovering the stories hidden within them. The paper trails of our lives -- or ephemera -- may hold sentimental value, reminding us of great grandparents. They chronicle social history. They can be valuable as collectibles or antiques. But the greatest pleasure is that these ordinary documents can reconstruct with uncanny immediacy the drama of day-to-day life. The Encyclopedia of Ephemera is the first work of its kind, providing an unparalleled sourcebook with over 400 entries that cover all aspects of everyday documents and artifacts, from bookmarks to birth cer...
Life Before Letters
A child of the Second World War, Peter Weidhaas could only find home by running away from the authoritarian culture into which he had been born. His early years on the road as a hitchhiker in Europe, the first loves of his life and his youthful exploits in Europe and South America, on to his initial encounters with the world of publishing from book dealing to bookbinding to book design and exhibitions set him down the twisting path to his future as Director of the Frankfurt Book Fair and one of the most important cultural figures in Europe.Life Before Letters is the story of how a man confronted his past by writing his future.
See You in Frankfurt!
In 1975, Peter Weidhaas was elected as the Director of The Frankfurt Book Fair. It was a surprise choice. Little did he know that he would preside over revolutionary changes in one of the most important cultural expositions in the world. But first he had to answer the question of his own identity. Born in 1938, Weidhaas was forced to confront the horrors of his German past, to live and learn through the tumultuous events on 1968, and finally to find his own place among the leading lights of the literary world. He held the reins at the Frankfurt Book Fair during every major cultural shift of the last quarter of the 20th century: from the explosion of world literature to the collapse of Communism, from the advent of globalization to the triumph of information technology. Through it all, Peter Weidhaas has proven himself to be one of the world s most sensitive bibliophiles and an astute pupil of cultural history.See You In Frankfurt! is the story of how the Frankfurt Book Fair found its soul.
Die Politisierung des Buchmarkts
Der Sammelband zeichnet mit vier Detailstudien, Magisterarbeitenam Institut fur Buchwissenschaft der Universitat Mainz, diePolitisierung des Buchmarktes 1968 an ausgesuchten Exempelnnach, und widmet sich dabei Sortiment und Verlag, dem MedienereignisFrankfurter Buchmesse und dem veranderten Verhaltniszwischen Autoren und Verleger. Kontinuitat und Wandel werdenuntersucht, ausgehend von der These, dass die Rolle der Medienseit den 50er Jahren fur den Wandel der Gesellschaft eine immergrossere Bedeutung erlangte. Brennpunktartig verdichteten sich inden sechziger Jahren die Versaumnisse bei der politischen Aufarbeitungdes Dritten Reichs und dem Verzicht auf strukturellenWandel innerhalb der Verlage und Sortimente bei den Sit-ins undHallensperrungen der Frankfurter Buchmessen 1967-1969, alsFanal erschien die tendenziell apolitische Vergabe des Friedenspreises1968 an den umstrittenen senegalesischen Prasidenten LeopoldSedar Senghor, der ausdrucklich wegen seiner eleganten franzosischenLyrik und seines humanistischen Weltbildes ausgezeichnetwurde.
