Analysis of selected aspects and visual elements of cookbooks from XIX and XX century printed in Warsaw, Poland.

• Autor(es): Charko, Malwina
• Data: 2015
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/8673
• Origem: Escola Superior de Artes e Design
• Assunto(s): Visual representations; Polish cookbooks; Recipes; Polish society; Warsaw; Design
• Tipo de Documento: Dissertação de mestrado
• Idioma: Inglês
• Orientador(es): Serapicos, Pedro
• Contribuidor(es): Repositório Comum

Descrição

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 are in unceasing development, trying to understand its user and respond to his needs. Visual language of cookbooks have been changing throughout centuries. Besides that, cookbooks provide information about history and cultural habits. These types of instructions are excellent mines of knowledge about society. 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. The research deals with analyzing visual elements of cookbooks such as binding, typography and composition as well as illustrative and photographic elements.