Printing and Painting the News in Victorian London
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Fildes's Painting
Fildes’s Painting
Ford Madox Brown's Work
Ford Madox Brown’s Work
Genre Painting
Gogh
History Painting
Holl's Illustration
Holl's Paintings
Holloway's Pills
Holloway’s Pills
Holl’s Illustration
Holl’s Paintings
Hubert Herkomer
illustrated journalism
Illustrated London News
Indian Sketches
Luke Fildes
mass media history
media archaeology
News Illustration
nineteenth-century visual culture
Royal Academy
Royal Academy Exhibition
Royal Holloway College
social realism in British painting
Social Realist Paintings
Traditional History Painting
urban poverty representation
Victorian art criticism
Vincent Van Gogh
Young Men
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- ISBN 9781472432988
- Weight: 703g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 28 Dec 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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and Hubert Herkomer are frequently considered to typify the sentimental Victorian genre painting that quickly became outdated with the development of modernism. Yet this book argues that the paintings must be considered as the result of the new experiences of modernity-the urban poverty that the paintings represent and, most importantly, the advent of the mass-produced illustrated news. Fildes, Holl and Herkomer worked for The Graphic, a publication launched in 1869 as a rival to the dominant Illustrated London News. The artists’ illustrations, which featured the growing problem of urban poverty, became the basis for large-scale paintings that provoked controversy among their contemporaries and later became known as Social Realism. This first in-depth study of The Graphic and Social Realism uses the approach of media archaeology to unearth the modernity of these works, showing that they engaged with the changing notions of objectivity and immediacy that nineteenth-century new media cultivated. In doing so, this book proposes an alternative trajectory for the development of modernism that allows for a richer understanding of nineteenth-century visual culture.
Andrea Korda is Faculty Lecturer, Department of Fine Arts and Humanities, Augustana Faculty, University of Alberta, Canada.
