1st Edition
Printing and Painting the News in Victorian London The Graphic and Social Realism, 1869-1891
By Andrea Korda
Copyright 2015
218 Pages
40 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
Printing and Painting the News in Victorian London offers a fresh perspective on Social Realism by contextualizing it within the burgeoning new media environment of Victorian London. Paintings labelled as Social Realist by Luke Fildes, Frank Holl and Hubert Herkomer are frequently considered to typify the sentimental Victorian genre painting that quickly became outdated with the development of... Read more
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.
Biography
Andrea Korda is Faculty Lecturer, Department of Fine Arts and Humanities, Augustana Faculty, University of Alberta, Canada.
