The History of 19th Century Magazines - Lecture with Dr. Vanessa Schulman

While periodicals had been an important part of U.S. literary culture for decades, around 1855 illustrated magazines became an inescapable part of modern life. American magazines in the nineteenth century were not just sources of news and information. They were physical objects, produced in factories using emergent technologies of paper-making, printing, and distribution. Their production was streamlined using new principles of managerial organization. Many of these magazines were also rich sources of experiments in visual journalism. This illustrated talk will uncover how American magazines were made and illustrated, and how they became important sites where readers could visualize their changing world. Dr. Vanessa Meikle Schulman is an Associate Professor of Art History at George Mason University. Dr. Schulman specializes in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century art and visual culture of the United States. She received her PhD in Visual Studies from the University of California, Irvine in 2010, and has published her research in the academic journals "American Art, Invisible Culture, Nineteenth Century Studies", "American Periodicals", and "Early Popular Visual Culture". Her book, "Work Sights: The Visual Culture of Industry in Nineteenth-Century America", was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2015. Her second book, "Art During Wartime: Painting Everyday Life in the Civil War North", is scheduled for publication in summer 2024. Tickets are $10 to the general public and free for museum members. Members, please call the museum to reserve your ticket. Tickets must be purchased in advance as there is limited seating. Questions? Please e-mail [email protected] or call the museum at 703-548-1789.

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