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Summary:

"Many visual media that we take for granted today were in fact invented in the nineteenth century. New technologies led to the creation of new media such as the illustrated newspaper, the cheap caricature cartoon, the affordable illustrated book, the portrait photograph, and the advertising poster. Though these objects might seem like throwaway ephemera, Picture World argues that they were crucial parts of nineteenth-century everyday life. Studying these ubiquitous pictures in fact helps us to revise common understandings of key aesthetic concepts for the century--terms such as character, realism, illustration, sensation, the picturesque, and decadence. The Age of Paper might seem to be drawing to a close, but Picture World tracks nineteenth-century media effects into the present day, from the portrait albums of Facebook to the illusionistic otherworlds of 3D films"--Publisher's description.

Table of Contents:

• Character: flat, zany, grotesque: caricature and the politics of character
• Realism: realism's war pictures: reality effects in the illustrated newspaper
• Illustration: orients of the self: Bible illustration and the Victorian world picture
• Sensation: cartomania: sensation, celebrity, and the photographed woman
• Picturesque: the picturesque in the stereoscope: nature, touch, time
• Decadence: consuming decadence: advertising and the art poster.

Author/Creator:

Teukolsky, Rachel, 1975- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Picture world: image, aesthetics, and Victorian new media [by Teukolsky, R.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Picture world [by Teukolsky, R.] (First edition; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2020 — ISBN 0198859732; OCLC Number 1147895108)

Subjects:

Visual communication — Great Britain — History — 19th century

Aesthetics, Modern — 19th century

1800-1899

Aesthetics, Modern

Visual communication

Great Britain

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on October 26, 2020).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 461 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and color)

Call Numbers:

P93.5 .T48 2020eb

ISBNs:

9780192603562 (electronic book)
0192603566 (electronic book)
9780191892080 (electronic book)
0191892084 (electronic book)
0198859732 (hardback) [Invalid]
9780198859734 (hardback) [Invalid]
9780192603579 (electronic bk.)
0192603574 (electronic bk.)

OCLC Numbers:

1197784771