Printing and Painting the News in Victorian London: The Graphic and Social Realism, 1869-1891

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Andrea Korda

Printing and Painting the News in Victorian London

The Graphic and Social Realism, 1869-1891

Andrea Korda

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Routledge
18 September 2018

History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Media studies; Press & journalism

Series: British Art: Histories and Interpretations since 1700

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and Hubert Herkomer are frequently considered to typify the sentimental Victorian genre painting that quickly became outdated with the development of modernism.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.

By: Andrea Korda
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138353237
ISBN 10: 113835323X
Series: British Art: Histories and Interpretations since 1700
Pages: 218
Publication Date: 18 September 2018
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Andrea Korda is Faculty Lecturer, Department of Fine Arts and Humanities, Augustana Faculty, University of Alberta, Canada.