Table Of ContentInternational Perspectives on
Publishing Platforms
With large-s cale scholarly projects dedicated to digitizing print-b ased magazines
and a concurrent turn towards digital mapping and data visualization, periodicals
that were once accessible only in the archive now have the capacity to reach
a wider audience, and make visible previously overlooked networks and
connections enacted within and across the magazines. International Perspectives
on Publishing Platforms: Image, Object, Text offers a unique contribution to the
field of periodical studies, while also broadening the scope of purview to consider
related content with regards to other relevant printed matter and cultural products,
as well as digital archiving strategies.
Including interdisciplinary contributions from academics around the world,
the volume presents a wide range of approaches to periodicals and printed matter
from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
Questions of material print culture and the digital realm are considered both
via theoretical and more empirical approaches. As a whole, the book considers
the pluralism of perspectives that the study of periodicals and printed matter
contribute to our historical understanding of various political and social issues,
and also devotes attention to the ways in which digital archiving projects can be
instrumentalized as a strategy for filling in gaps in the historical record.
International Perspectives on Publishing Platforms should be of great interest
to researchers, academics, and postgraduates engaged in the study of periodicals,
publishing, book history, world literature, digital humanities, media, visual and
material culture.
Meghan Forbes is currently the C- MAP (Contemporary and Modern Art
Perspectives) Fellow for Central and Eastern Europe at The Museum of Modern
Art in New York and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at
New York University. Previously, she was Czech Lecturer in the Department of
Slavic and Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She holds a PhD
from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor where she completed her dissertation, “In the Middle of It
All: Prague, Brno, and the Avant-G arde Networks of Interwar Europe.” She is the
recipient of numerous grants for her research, including an IIE Fulbright award to
Berlin in the 2014–2015 academic year.
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International Perspectives on
Publishing Platforms
Image, Object, Text
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Contents
List of figures vii
Contributors x
Introduction 1
MEGHAN FORBES
PART I
Image 23
1 Analog and digital Nigeria: inheriting serial cultures in
the work of Kelani Abass 25
JENNIFER BAJOREK
2 Writing about sound: the early talkie film periodicals of India 45
OLYMPIA BHATT
3 One- time periodicals, unrealized manifestos: little
magazines and the ethos of failure 82
NANA ARIEL
PART II
Object 103
4 Via postal: networked publications in and out of Latin America 105
ZANNA GILBERT
5 The life of others: collecting and archiving the Cuban
surveillance regime 133
MARíA A. CABRERA ARúS
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6 Contemporary art magazines: the archive in the archive 151
CAMILLA SALVANESCHI
PART III
Text 175
7 A journal of science without boundaries: Ali Suavi’s
Ulûm Gazetesi 177
KENAN TEKIN
8 Everyday printed matter: Kurt Schwitters’s
experimental typography 200
HANNAH PRöBSTING
9 The sekai- sei of circulation: the “world relevance” of
the avant- garde Japanese calligraphy periodical Bokubi
(1951–1960) 224
NAOMI KUROMIYA
Index 247
Figures
1.1 Kelani Abass, Family Portrait 2 (2013), acrylics and oil on
canvas, 122 × 122 × 6 cm 29
1.2 Kelani Abass, Asiko 2 (Family Album Series) (2013), diptych,
corrugated cardboard, laminated print, and acrylics on canvas,
91 × 122 × 6 cm each 31
1.3 Kelani Abass, Memoirs (Calendar Series) (2012), corrugated
cardboard, laminated print, charcoal and acrylics on canvas,
122 × 122 × 6 cm 32
1.4 Kelani Abass, Oba Gbadebo I (Calendar Series) (2013),
corrugated cardboard, laminated print, charcoal and acrylics on
canvas, 105 × 122 × 6 cm 33
1.5 Kelani Abass, Casing History 1 (2016), letterpress typecase
and digital prints, 36 × 82 cm 35
1.6 Kelani Abass, Making Time 1 (Stamping History Series) (2016),
manual hand-n umbering machine on paper, 254 × 363 cm 37
1.7 Kelani Abass, Making Time 1 (Stamping History Series)
(2016), detail 38
2.1 DC to AC current converters for talkie machines and “touring
talkie outfits” 51
2.2 “Cineglow”: triode vacuum tube for talkie production and
exhibition 52
2.3 Canady sound- on- film recording system 54
2.4 Film and talkie “Portable Set” distributor, Lucky Films
Syndicate, Calcutta 55
2.5 Superior and “Similar to Western Electric or RCA” sound
projectors for theatres, from International Service on Sound
Corporation, Bombay 56
2.6 A “loud” defense for silent films: distributor Famous Pictures
and its latest silent Indian films 58
2.7 Indo- American Distributing Company, Calcutta, and its
latest silent films 59
2.8 Lahore- based distributor for RCA Photophone, Empire
Projection and Sound Service 60
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2.9 The logo of Lahore-b ased studio Playart Phototone Corporation
and its affinity to (RCA) Sound 61
2.10 Playart Phototone’s 1932 talkie film Heer Ranjha 62
2.11 Sonic reputation resonating in Huns Pictures’ 1937 talkie
Dharamveer 68
2.12 All about song and sound: November 1941 Filmindia cover,
an ode to the popularity of Khazanchi’s music 70
2.13 Singalong song of Khazanchi: “Sawan ke nazare hai” 71
2.14 The singer- actor replaced by the onscreen actor: Manorama
credited as the “nightingale” for Bhai (1944) 73
3.1 02010, magazine cover and item (2010) 83
3.2 Kiltartan, magazine cover (1964) 91
3.3 Kiltartan, opening page (1964) 92
3.4 Kiltartan, comics (1964) 93
3.5 Kiltartan, participants (1963–1964) 95
3.6 Kiltartan, manifestary letter (1964) 96
4.1 Edgardo Antonio Vigo, “USA versus Latin American,” published in
Hexágono ’71, issue bc (La Plata, 1972) 109
4.2 Edgardo Antonio Vigo, “USA versus Latin American,” published in
Hexágono ’71, issue bc (La Plata, 1972) 110
4.3 Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Hexágono ’71, issue cf (La Plata, 1973) 112
4.4 Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Hexágono ’71, issue dg (La Plata, 1974) 113
4.5 Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Hexágono ’71, issue dg (La Plata, 1974) 114
4.6 Cover of Schmuck (1974) 116
4.7 Cover of Hungarian Schmuck (1972) 117
4.8 Cover of Ephemera 1 (Amsterdam, November 1977) 121
4.9 Cover of Ephemera 6 (Amsterdam, April 1978) 123
4.10 Cover of Ephemera 12: Brazil (Amsterdam, October 1978) 124
5.1 Notification of the reservist number and military barrack
assigned to a reservist (1960s) 136
5.2 First Census of Workers, receipts (1960) 137
5.3 Worker’s identification card, issued by the Ministry of
Communications (1961) 138
5.4 Worker’s identification card for purposes of gaining access to
the workers social clubs (1960s) 139
5.5 Men’s ration booklet (1970s) 140
5.6 ID card issued to the members of the CDRs (circa 1961–62) 141
5.7 CNI card with instructions to Cuban citizens on what to spy on
and how to report what they saw to the authorities, date unknown
(1970s–1980s) 142
5.8 Student’s Accumulative File (1978) 144
6.1 Cover of Parkett’s issue 100/101 (December 2017) 152
6.2 Spines of Parkett, issues 1–100/101 153
6.3 Cabinet magazine “Archive” page 156
Figures ix
6.4 Cabinet magazine “Issues” page 157
6.5 Chimurenga Library “homepage” 166
6.6 Chimurenga Library, installation of Cape Town Central
Library, Cape Town (2009) 168
7.1 A page from the letterpress issues of the Ulûm Gazetesi
(no 24: 1369) 180
7.2 The first page of the lithographed issues of the Ulûm Gazetesi
(no 1:1) 188
8.1 Kurt Schwitters, “Tabelle 1, a–f” 204
8.2 Kurt Schwitters: Fitelberg, 1927. Letterpress,
5 7/16 × 5 1/2' (13.8 × 14 cm) 206
8.3 Kurt Schwitters, poster for Opel-T ag, Frankfurt (1927).
Lithograph, 33 1/2 × 23 3/4 inches 207
8.4 Dammerstock-Siedlung Exhibition, 1929 216
8.5 Infopavillon at the entrance to the Dammerstock-Siedlung (2017) 217
9.1 Cover of Bokubi no. 12, featuring Painting No. 3 (1952) by
Franz Kline, May 1952. Published by Shodō- shuppansha,
Kyoto, Japan 229
