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The Wood Engravers' Self-Portrait The Dalziel Archive and Victorian Illustration.
The first major study of Dalziel Brothers, a Victorian image-making firm that made a phenomenal contribution to mass visual culture.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2022.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front matter
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Approaching engravings: medium and the parasite
- A wordless memoir: the illustrator as archivist
- Part I The Dalziel family and their 'woodpecker' employees, 1839-93
- 'The print of [her] feet' (Wordsworth): the wood engravers' self-portrait
- Ruskin's sinisterity: disjointed hands and brains, and the division of art labour
- Barnaby Rudge and 'the atmosphere of letters' (Craik): apprenticeship, education and employment
- Ghostwriting the line of the other: Wilkie Collins's After Dark and Dalziel's freelance engravers
- 'This midnight forger' (Trollope): signatures, authorship and relations between engravers and draughtspeople
- Part II Medium and technique at Dalziel Brothers
- 'Off with her head!' (Carroll): execution, technical violence and the discipline of visual culture
- 'These many ingenious adaptations of photography' (Dalziel): photography and wood engraving, from Eadweard Muybridge to Julia Margaret Cameron
- 'A peculiar brilliancy of black' (DeVinne): the colour of monochrome, and Thomas Dalziel's The May Queen
- Speed, print, news
- Conclusion: Greedy rats
- Bibliography
- Index of names