Art History 275 - HISTORY: ILLUSTRATED PRESS

Prompted by recent concerns about ‘fake news’ and the proliferation of digitally manipulated photographs, the course explores the history of the illustrated press from its nineteenth-century origins to today. How did images contribute to readers’ sense of what is worthy of attention in the realm of politics, fashion, and the arts? How did practices of pictorial reporting influence the unfolding of events? In what ways did arts periodicals prompt the emergence of artistic forms that blurred traditional distinctions between media? Case studies shed light on the history of printing, the graphic arts, and the multifaceted legacy of historical news images today. Group B