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Barcode30293102378978
LocationClark County
Call No741.6409 Dowd
TitleReading pictures : a history of illustration / D.B. Dowd.
AuthorDowd, Douglas Bevan, author.
CollectionNF
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LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc StatusTemp Loc
Clark County30293102378978741.6409 Dowd5/18/2026 AvailableClark County

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780691245690 (PDF ebook)
International Standard Book Number 9780691245683 (hardbound)
International Standard Book Number 0691245681 (hardbound)
Personal Name Dowd, Douglas Bevan, author.
Title Statement Reading pictures : a history of illustration / D.B. Dowd.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice Princeton ; and Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2026.
Physical Description 399 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (chiefly color) ; 26 cm.
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-392) and index.
Formatted Contents Note The story of illustration -- Setting the stage: early modern printing and publishing -- The rise of reading and the visualization of literature -- Conflict in the news: the illustrated press -- Advertising, consumer culture, and domestic life -- Illustrator as author -- Ideological battlefields: persuasion and propaganda -- Desire illustrated: new women, modern men, and popular performance -- Picturing peoples: race-thinking and representation -- Telling stories: illustration, history, and memory -- Decorating childhood: literacy, learning, pleasure, and control -- Illustration as counterculture: Freedom, advocacy, and dissent -- Late modern reading: paragraphs, panels, and pixels.
Summary, Etc. "Of all the visual arts, illustration shares a unique relationship with the written word, often serving to visualize, enhance, or respond to a text. Reading Pictures presents a global history of this versatile art form, linking its emergence to modern developments such as the illustrated news, recreational reading, and ad-driven consumer culture. From the advent of the printing press in the mid-fifteenth century to the modernist artistic and cultural movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, D. B. Dowd traces the development of illustration as an integral part of the reading experience. He examines the move from ancient scrolls to pamphlets and book forms, and a return to the scroll in electronic form on smartphones and tablets. His story begins with relief prints and woodcuts in ancient China and Japan before moving to printing and platemaking in early modern Europe. Dowd discusses how book and periodical publishing rose sharply with the innovations of wood engraving and lithography, leading to a boom in cultural literacy; and how the illustrated press reached its zenith between the 1860s and 1960s, as printed entertainment and the news of the world became commonplace in every household, bringing with them advertising, propaganda, and consumer culture. Richly illustrated with more than four hundred images spanning the iconic to the unexpected, Reading Pictures reframes the story of illustration within the broader histories of race, gender, literacy, and the transmission of cultural memory. It reveals how reading and looking have become increasingly integrated, and that, as images have become ever more prevalent today with the digital revolution, what is meant by literacy has evolved" -- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Illustration of books History.
Added Entry, Personal Name Dowd, D. B. (Douglas Bevan)

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