European Illustrated Press and the Emergence of a Transnational Visual Culture of the News 1842-1870
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780367247867
Subjects: Journalism, pictorial; European newspapers, directories; Art and society
Description: "This book looks at the roots of a global visual news culture: the trade in illustrations of the news between European illustrated newspapers in the mid-nineteenth century. In the age of nationalism, we might suspect these publications to be filled with nationally produced content, supporting a national imagined community. However, the large-scale transnational trade in illustrations, which this books uncovers, points out that nineteenth century news consumers already looked at the same world. By exchanging images, European illustrated newspapers provided them with a shared, transnational, experience"--