Reading Pictures : A History of Illustration.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dowd, D. B.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2026.

Summary:

A history of illustration from the beginning of popular print to the rise of mass literacy and into today's age of digital media Of all the visual arts, illustration shares a unique relationship with the written word, often serving to visualize, enhance, or respond to a text.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

The Story of Illustration

1. Setting the Stage: Early Modern Printing and Publishing

2. The Rise of Reading and the Visualization of Literature

3. Conflict in the News: The Illustrated Press

4. Advertising, Consumer Culture, and Domestic Life

5. Illustrator as Author

6. Ideological Battlefields: Persuasion and Propaganda

7. Desire Illustrated: New Women, Modern Men, and Popular Performance

8. Picturing Peoples: Race-Thinking and Representation

9. Telling Stories: Illustration, History, and Memory

10. Decorating Childhood: Literacy, Learning, Pleasure, and Control

11. Illustration as Counterculture: Freedom, Advocacy, and Dissent

12. Late Modern Reading: Paragraphs, Panels, and Pixels

Bibliography

Index

Image Credits

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-691-29141-1

0-691-24569-X

9780691245690