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Reading Popular Prints, 1790-1870
Brian Maidment
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Description for Reading Popular Prints, 1790-1870
Paperback. Brian Maidment offers access to the critical issues and methodolgical complexities raised by the interpretation of popular graphic images from the 18th and 19th centuries. He reads popular prints as complex commodities, through which one can understand historical events and social change. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JF; 3JH; ACV; AFH; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 367.
Each chapter of this stimulating book collects a wide variety of images show the different ways that historical events can be represented. Metal and wood engravings, lithographs, woodcuts, etchings, watercolors, and drawings all reflect changing attitudes towards gender, politics, the family, education, and industrialization. This revised second edition has many new illustrations which further assist the interpretation of popular graphic images from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Each chapter of this stimulating book collects a wide variety of images show the different ways that historical events can be represented. Metal and wood engravings, lithographs, woodcuts, etchings, watercolors, and drawings all reflect changing attitudes towards gender, politics, the family, education, and industrialization. This revised second edition has many new illustrations which further assist the interpretation of popular graphic images from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719033711
SKU
V9780719033711
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Brian Maidment
Brian Maidment is Professor of English at the University of Salford
Reviews for Reading Popular Prints, 1790-1870
"'a concise and insightful guide into the complex issues involved in decoding forms of graphic imagery... many interesting insights and original insights [and] real skill in analysing the particular' Art History; 'this careful, thoughtful and highly stimulating study of prints as history.' Asa Briggs, Literature and History"