History of Illustration Week 5 Reading Questions

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1.What best characterizes print ephemera? A. quotidian, disposable, and ubiquitous B. precious, unique, and rarified C. experimental, intellectually challenging, and expensive D. None of these 2. Ballad sheets, broadsides, and playbills were forms of _______________ consumed by large masses of people in industrializing cities in Europe and North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A. academic art B. State-sponsored propaganda C. street literature D. music 3. While some illustrated publications such as the Penny Magazine aspired to elevate working class readers through educational articles, sensational _______________ proved more popular among this demographic. A. plays B. anatomical theaters C. illustrated stationary D. broadsides 4. Which of the following technological advancements helped give rise to mass print media in the nineteenth century? A. mass production of paper B. automated presses C. mass produced plates such as stereotypes and chromolithographs D. all of these 5. Why do execution broadsides often contained large blank squares at the center of the image? A. so that the executed person(s) family members would be protected from public outrage

B. so that these generic plates could be quickly populated with as many executed people as the story required C. so that the public would not have to see the executed people D. in order to better frame the executed person's body and thus communicate a moral message 6. Illustrated billheads served what purpose? A. they decorated receipts and order sheets B. they promoted the goods and services of the business C. they communicated the location of the business or the nature of their products D. all of these 7. Which of the following social practice among the middle and upper classes prompted the emergence of picture postcards in the late nineteenth century? A. tourism B. Phrenology C. industrialization D. the U.S. Civil War 8. In what ways in the image below characteristic of vinegar valentines of the nineteenth century? A. it communicates affection to the recipient B. it is a finely rendered and expressive etching C. it is a cheap hand-colored wood engraving D. all of these 9. American illustrator Winslow Homer depicted what in his series of picture cards Camp Life (1864)? A. Confederate leaders B. Union leaders C. heroic acts in Civil War battles D. the everyday life of soldiers

10. Which of the following examples reflect the intersection of fine art and mass advertising in the late nineteenth century? A. Giovanni Focardi's sculpture "You Dirty Boy!' for Pears' Soap B. Frederick Walker's image for the play "The Woman in White" C. John Millais' painting "A Child's world" for Pears' Soap D. all of these 11. Used widely in the production of illustrated magazines and newspapers, wood engravings required a highly-skilled master printer who oversaw the entirety of the print process from beginning to end. True False 12. What characterized the images of respected illustrated newspapers such as the Illustrated London News, L'Illustration, and Le Monde Illustré? A. they were synthesized interpretations of verbal and textual reports, original drawings of news correspondents, pre-existing imagery, and the illustrator's imagination B. they were produced through a facsimile approach C. they brought images of distant peoples and events into the hands of everyday readers D. all of these 13. Despite many productive overlaps between the worlds of fine art and mass media, what were some of the critiques leveled against illustration during the nineteenth century? A. that illustration cheapened the public's appreciation for artistic skill by reducing image-making to an assembly-line process B. that illustration "feminized" literature by feeding middle class tastes for superficial and frivolous picture books and magazines C. that illustrations corrupted the status of original works of art by putting them in service of commerce D. all of these

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