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  title info:
    title: Reading pictures
    sub title: a history of illustration
  name:
    name part: Dowd, Douglas Bevan
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Illustrated works.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2026
    copyright date: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: regular print
    extent: 399 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
  abstract: "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."--Page 4 of cover.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: D.B. Dowd.
  note: Illustrations include some comics.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-392) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Illustration of books
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Illustration des livres
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: ART / History / General
  subject:
    topic: Illustration of books
    topic: History
  classification: NC960 .D693 2026
  classification: 741.6409
  identifier: 9780691245683
  identifier: 0691245681
  identifier: 9780691245690
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: UKMGB
    record creation date: 260211
    record change date: 20260530145632.8
    record identifier: in00005783394
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng