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Picture World - Image, Aesthetics, and Victorian New Media (Hardcover)
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Picture World - Image, Aesthetics, and Victorian New Media (Hardcover)
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The modern media world came into being in the nineteenth century,
when machines were harnessed to produce texts and images in
unprecedented numbers. In the visual realm, new industrial
techniques generated a deluge of affordable pictorial items,
mass-printed photographs, posters, cartoons, and illustrations.
These alluring objects of the Victorian parlor were miniaturized
spectacles that served as portals onto phantasmagoric versions of
'the world.' Although new kinds of pictures transformed everyday
life, these ephemeral items have received remarkably little
scholarly attention. Picture World shines a welcome new light onto
these critically neglected yet fascinating visual objects. They
serve as entryways into the nineteenth century's key aesthetic
concepts. Each chapter pairs a new type of picture with a
foundational keyword in Victorian aesthetics, a familiar term
reconceived through the lens of new media. 'Character' appears
differently when considered with caricature, in the new comics and
cartoons appearing in the mass press in the 1830s; likewise, the
book approaches 'realism' through pictorial journalism;
'illustration' via illustrated Bibles; 'sensation' through
carte-de-visite portrait photographs; 'the picturesque' by way of
stereoscopic views; and 'decadence' through advertising posters.
Picture World studies the aesthetic effects of the nineteenth
century's media revolution: it uses the relics of a previous era's
cultural life to interrogate the Victorian world's most deeply-held
values, arriving at insights still relevant in our own media age.
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