Printing and Painting the News in Victorian London - The Graphic and Social Realism, 1869-1891

Informationen zum Autor Andrea Korda is Faculty Lecturer! Department of Fine Arts and Humanities! Augustana Faculty! University of Alberta! Canada. Klappentext This first in-depth study of 1860s publication The Graphic and Social Realism uses the approach of media archaeology to unearth the modernity of paintings labeled as Social Realist. Korda shows that the paintings engaged with the changing notions of objectivity and immediacy that nineteenth-century new media cultivated. In doing so. Zusammenfassung This first in-depth study of 1860s publication The Graphic and Social Realism uses the approach of media archaeology to unearth the modernity of paintings labeled as Social Realist. Korda shows that the paintings engaged with the changing notions of objectivity and immediacy that nineteenth-century new media cultivated. In doing so. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; 'See for yourself': printing the news in Victorian London; Ways of seeing the news: the Illustrated London News and The Graphic; Genre painting to breaking news: Frank Holl and the fallen woman; Fallen men and strong pictures: exhibiting and collecting social realism; Painting the news and advertising painting: Hubert Herkomer and the role of the artist in the age of new media; The return of the hero! 1891; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Andrea Korda, Korda Andrea
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.12.2014
• EAN: 9781472432988
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-3298-8
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: British Art: Histories and Interpretations since 1700; British Art: Histories and Interpretations since 1700
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; London, Greater London, ART / History / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, ART / European, ART / Prints, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Art, Social and cultural history, Painting & paintings, Prints & printmaking, Prints and printmaking, Paintings and painting