Media Critique in the Age of Gillray - Scratches, Scraps, and Spectres (Hardcover)

In the late 1790s, British Prime Minister William Pitt created a crisis of representation when he pressured the British Parliament to relieve the Bank of England from its obligations to convert paper notes into coin. Paper quickly became associated with a form of limitless reproduction that threatened to dematerialize solid bodies and replace them with insubstantial shadows. Media Critique in the Age of Gillray centres on printed images and graphic satires which view paper as the foundation for the contemporary world. Through a focus on printed, visual imagery from practitioners such as James Gillray, William Blake, John Thomas Smith, and Henry Fuseli, the book addresses challenges posed by reproductive technologies to traditional concepts of subjective agency. Joseph Monteyne shows that the late eighteenth-century paper age's baseless fabric set the stage for contemporary digital media's weightless production. Engagingly written and abundantly illustrated, Media Critique in the Age of Gillray highlights the fact that graphic culture has been overlooked as an important sphere for the production of critical and self-reflective discourses around media transformations and the visual turn in British culture.

General

Imprint:	University of Toronto Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	February 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Joseph Monteyne
Dimensions:	235 x 159 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	316
ISBN-13:	978-1-4875-2774-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > Art styles not limited by date > Art of indigenous peoples Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1400 to 1600 > Mannerism (c 1530-1600) Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1800 to 1900 > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1600 to 1800 > Classicism > General
LSN:	1-4875-2774-8
Barcode:	9781487527747

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