Reading Popular Prints 17901870

(Paperback)

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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. -- .

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"'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"

Author Bio

Brian Maidment is Professor of English at the University of Salford