Author : Andrea L. Korda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1124446052
Printing and Painting the News in Victorian London by Andrea L. Korda Pdf
The works of Frank Holl, Luke Fildes and Hubert Herkomer offer the opportunity to explore the relationship between Victorian painting and the regularly-illustrated newspaper, a new visual technology in the nineteenth-century. All three artists worked as illustrators for the newspaper The Graphic and produced large-scale paintings based on their illustrations. These paintings have been grouped together under the rubric of Social Realism. In this dissertation, I examine Social Realism in light of London's wider visual culture, and propose that Fildes, Holl and Herkomer's paintings represented a new possibility for high art, generated by the newspaper's incursion into the visual field.