Beatrice Farwell discusses her interest in popular imagery and high art in the pictorial culture of nineteenth-century France, a century that saw the introduction of mass media for the reproduction of both word and image.
In the second segment [13:45], Robert Patten discusses his research and writing, which resulted in George Cruikshank’s Life, Times, and Art, his two-volume work on the Victorian illustrator.
This edition of Soundings was conducted by Wayne J. Pond.