Graphic culture : illustration and artistic enterprise in Paris, 1830-1848 / Jillian Lerner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lerner, Jillian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prints, French--France--Paris--19th century.

Prints, French.

Art and society--France--Paris--History--19th century.

Art and society.

Visual communication--France--Paris--History--19th century.

Visual communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2018]

Summary:

Nineteenth-century Paris is often celebrated as the capital of modernity. However, this story is about cultural producers who were among the first to popularize and profit from that idea. Graphic Culture investigates the graphic artists and publishers who positioned themselves as connoisseurs of Parisian modernity in order to market new print publications that would amplify their cultural authority while distributing their impressions to a broad public. Jillian Lerner's exploration of print culture illuminates the changing conditions of vision and social history in July Monarchy Paris. Analyzing a variety of caricatures, fashion plates, celebrity portraits, city guides, and advertising posters from the 1830s and 1840s, she shows how "idian print imagery began to transform the material and symbolic dimensions of metropolitan life. The author's interdisciplinary approach situates the careers and visual strategies of illustrators such as Paul Gavarni and Achille Devéria in a broader context of urban entertainments and social practices; it brings to light a rich terrain of artistic collaboration and commercial experimentation that linked the worlds of art, literature, fashion, publicity, and the theatre. A timely historical meditation on the emergence of a commercial visual culture that prefigured our own, Graphic Culture traces the promotional power of artistic celebrities and the crucial perceptual and social transformations generated by new media.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Illustrator of Modern Life

The Editor as Ragpicker

Marketing Vision

The Hours of Her Day

Gavarni's Costumes

Conclusion

Illustrations

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780773555143

0773555145

9780773555150

0773555153