The Graphic Effects of Industrial Production 1800-1850
Color appears in print - more woodblock type processes
Advertisements become common - create mass markets=new visual culture
publications began to mediate social values
Lord Byron = first tabloid celeb, "Mad, Bad and Dangerous to know."
Print became pervasive in society
Competition for readers begins
Standards of beauty and style pervaded
Newspapers became a cultural force
Labels, menus, etc
Gender based ideals and branding of magazines began
Idea of self-improvement reading takes hold
Printing becomes very inexpensive
First stereotypes created
Book are lavishly illustrated
Lithography is invented - more realistic images
Daguerreotypes offer even more realistic images
Photographs thought of as infallible
Railroad = wider dissemination of print materials
Bills were being posted everywhere
Chromolithography arrives - color lithographs
Fine art and graphic artists split
Graphic arts mediate the values of modern life same as fine art
William Blake survived on his graphic arts, creating books of fine art poetry
Press became powerful influence, socially, politically
Mass media culture becomes established
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