What is the role of print media in the digital age?
Viktor Hertz - Pictogram movie posters
- Universally understood ideas using shapes.
- Can depict our ideas of what society should be like; gender roles, culture, social norms, etc.
- Visual metaphors. The images don't necessarily have naturalistic elements to them, but we as an audience understand clearly what is being said.
http://designspiration.net/image/482504318851/
Penny Dreadful (1870s) Magazine
Informing the horrors of Victorian fast food - The penny pie.
Comparative to the Glastonbury Press and The London Illustrated News.
- Came about with democracy and the collapse of traditional authority.
- Popular culture, distraction for the masses
- Print Capitalism, there is a common way of using language and forming opinions/ideas that are generated through the use of the printing press to influence the ideas of the individuals in a nation.
- Art became available to all classes. Before, there was a noticeable separation of different classes in regards to who art was available to. The working class people then created their own culture and got together to protest against their conditions.
- Has the traditional print been replaced with digital media? No need for a physical copy of an image due to the growth of social media? For example, the power of an image - Jean Jullien's 'Peace for Paris' symbol.
http://static.highsnobiety.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/14230125/jean-jullien-peace-for-paris-symbol-0.jpg
http://metro.co.uk/2013/07/08/victorian-fast-food-horrors-exposed-3872919/
Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Print
- Repetition and print based. No originality to the work.
- All notion of meaning is eliminated from Warhol's work. Aims to create prints free from concept, attacking more pretentious ideas of art.
- Simply looks nice, popular culture. People taking art into their homes.
- Does print media even have a role in the digital age?
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