graphic arts

Sep 27

NEW IN PRINT — British Comics: A Cultural History

James Chapman. "In this entertaining cultural history of British comic papers and magazines, James Chapman shows how comics were...

Jul 18

NEW IN PRINT — Songs for Modern Japan: Popular Music and Graphic Design, 1900 to 1950

Kendall Brown, Anne Nishimura Morse, and Hiromu Nagahara. "Japanese society underwent a whirlwind of change during the first half of the...

Apr 29

NEW IN PRINT — Escher

Mark Veldhuysen (Ed.) and Federico Giudiceandrea (Ed.). “The Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher first visited Italy in the 1920s before...

Apr 29

NEW IN PRINT — The Art of the Literary Poster

Allison Rudnick. “Spurred by innovations in printing technology, the modern poster emerged in the 1890s as a popular form of visual...

Feb 17, 2023

IN DEPTH — Archiving Valentines

In May 2021, I started processing the Nancy and Henry Rosin collection of valentine, friendship, and devotional ephemera. Assembled by...

Jul 6, 2021

IN FOCUS — Europeana

Get Involved — Time Waster. Europeana has online exhibits, blog posts, and image galleries containing artwork, photography, and graphic...

Jan 4, 2021

NEW IN PRINT — Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the 19th Century

Aston Gonzalez. Material Culture — History and Culture. “The fight for racial equality in the nineteenth century played out not only in...

Jun 8, 2020

NEW IN PRINT — This is What Democracy Looked Like: A Visual History of the Printed Ballot

Alicia Yin Cheng. Fine Arts, Prints, & Graphic Arts — History. “This Is What Democracy Looked Like, the first illustrated history of...

Nov 4, 2019

IN FOCUS — Graphic materials selected by the staff of University of Wisconsin-Madison

Get Social — Tumblr. Lose yourself in this continuous delight of graphic materials selected by the staff of University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Nov 4, 2019

NEW IN PRINT — Communist Posters

Mary Ginsberg (Editor). Fine Arts, Prints, & Graphic Arts — History. “One of the common features of communist regimes is the use of art...