Picture World - Image, Aesthetics, and Victorian New Media

Explores the ways in which new forms of visual culture, such as such as the illustrated newspaper, the cheap caricature cartoon, the affordable illustrated book, the portrait photograph, and the advertising poster, worked to shape key Victorian aesthetic concepts.

Sommario

• Introduction: Visual Culture in the Victorian Mediascape


• 1. 'Character': Flat, Zany, Grotesque: Caricature and the Politics of Character


• 2. 'Realism': Realism's War Pictures: Reality Effects in the Illustrated Newspaper


• 3. 'Illustration': Orients of the Self: Bible Illustration and the Victorian World Picture


• 4. 'Sensation': Cartomania: Sensation, Celebrity, and the Photographed Woman


• 5. 'Picturesque': The Picturesque in the Stereoscope: Nature, Touch, Time


• 6. 'Decadence': Consuming Decadence: Advertising and the Art Poster


• Conclusion: Cinema in 1896

Info autore

Rachel Teukolsky is an Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Her research focuses on aesthetics, visual culture, and media history in nineteenth-century Britain. She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University with a double major in English and Art History, and subsequently received a PhD in English literature from the University of California, Berkeley. She is author of The Literate Eye: Victorian Art Writing and Modernist Aesthetics (Oxford University Press, 2009), awarded the Sonya Rudikoff Prize in 2010 for best first book in Victorian studies.

Riassunto

Explores the ways in which new forms of visual culture, such as such as the illustrated newspaper, the cheap caricature cartoon, the affordable illustrated book, the portrait photograph, and the advertising poster, worked to shape key Victorian aesthetic concepts.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Rachel Teukolsky, Rachel (Associate Professor of English Teukolsky
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 15.08.2020
• EAN: 9780198859734
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885973-4
• Pagine: 480
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, c 1800 to c 1900, History of Art, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Philosophy: aesthetics, 1837–1901 (Victorian period), ART / History / European / Romanticism