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| Size | | Height: | 12.5 in | | Width: | 9.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 58.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
An art historian, a newspaperman, and an ad executive team up on this unique and esoteric study of the role that newspapers have played in the development of western art over the past 400 years. In addition to a trio of learned essays, the volume includes 210 outstanding reproductions of art works that include depictions of newspapers, mostly as incidental props, ranging from early etchings to genre paintings to trompe-l'oeil to Cubist papiers colles to commercial art. The authors culled their examples from more than 200 libraries, museums, and galleries worldwide, after sorting through roughly 80,000 works. Nevertheless, the preponderance of tangential examples makes all the more tenuous the authors' labored attempts to promote the appearance of newspapers in art as seminal icons and harbingers of artistic change. This is best suited to research institutions strong in print media, the history of journalism, and iconography. Russell T. Clement, Univ. of Tennessee Lib., Knoxville
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