MA THESIS
"Analysis of selected aspects and visual elements of cookbooks from XIX and XX century printed in Warsaw, Poland."
ABSTRACT
Cookbooks are special types of books instructing the user how to prepare a specific dish. By constant changes of technology
as well as human consciousness cookbooks were in unceasing development, trying to understand its user and respond to his needs.
Visual language of cookbooks have been changing throughout centuries.
Given that times have been changing in cultural, social and historical aspects, the recipes and their visual representations had been evolving with them.
Given that times have been changing in cultural, social and historical aspects, the recipes and their visual representations had been evolving with them.
The main objective of this investigation is to analyze and trace those changes on examples of Polish culinary books from XIX and XX century printed in Warsaw, Poland. For the investigation 144 cookbooks were gathered in order to analyze visual elements of cookbooks such as binding, typography and composition as well as illustrative and photographic elements.
Covers of all analyzed cookbooks.
Throughout my journey I've also designed mapping posters analyzing typography and colors used on covers of cookbooks.
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